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Patricia Averbach

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Patricia Averbach began her writing career at sixteen as the entirely unqualified literary assistant to Anzia Yeszierska, Jewish-American author of the immigrant experience. A native Clevelander, she’s a former director of The Chautauqua Writers Center. Her third novel, Dreams of Drowning (Bedazzled Ink, 2024), was a finalist for the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Award and Chanticleer’s Somerset Award for Literary Fiction.
Previous novels include Painting Bridges (Bottom Dog Press, 2013) and Resurrecting Rain (Golden Antelope Press, 2020) which
was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and a poetry chapbook, Missing Persons, (Ward Wood Publishing, 2013) which was cited by Times of London Literary Supplement (November 2014) as one of the best
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Dreams of Drowning

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