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Alaska writer, trail runner and author of "Malnourished: A Memoir of Sisterhood and Hunger," releasing Jan. 21, 2020, from Raised Voice Press, and "Dolls Behaving Badly," from Hachette Book Group; lover of good books and hot baths or, better yet, reading good books while lounging in a hot bath. Secret wish: To hike up a mountain while holding Emily Dickinson's hand. ...more

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Malnourished launches today

It’s here. The big day. My memoir, the one I spent 15 years struggling over, launches today from Raised Voice Press.

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I’m feeling very exposed, very vulnerable. This is not at all similar to when Dolls Behaving Badly launched from Hachette Book Group. That was a novel, and while some of it was based on my life, most of it was fiction. The characters were figments of my i

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	Dolls Behaving Badly 3.72 avg rating — 263 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Malnourished: A Memoir of Sisterhood and Hunger 4.29 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hunger: The Best of Brilliant Flash Fiction 2014-2019 by Dawn Lowe (Editor), Ed Higgins (Editor), Ingrid Anders (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Deaf Poets Society, Issue 3: January 2017 by Ava C. Cipri (Editor), Cyrée Jarelle Johnson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sarah Katz (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Women of the Web: Anthology of Poems by Terry Lowenstein (Contributor), Lisa Zaran (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Deborah Swain (Contributor) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Forgive me if I never visit. I am from the fields, you know, and while quite at home with the dandelions, make a sorry figure in a drawing room.”
― Emily Dickinson

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