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Shann Ray
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SHANN RAY is the winner of the Subterrain Poetry Prize and the Pacific Northwest Inlander Short Story Award. His work has appeared in Montana Quarterly, Northwest Review, McSweeney's, Narrative, Story…

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Lawrence Anthony (17 September 1950 – 2 March 2012) was a South African conservation…
Joanna   Quinn
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Joanna Quinn was born in London and grew up in Dorset, in the South West of England, where her debut novel The Whalebone Theatre is set.

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