Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (Sherri Szeman)
Awards include New York Times Book Review Notable Book and "Top 100 Books of the Year," University of Rochester Kafka Award for "Outstanding book of prose fiction by an American woman," and Talmadge McKinney Award for "Excellence in Research" for The Kommandant's Mistress. University of Cincinnati Elliston Poetry Prize for poems in Love in the Time of Dinosaurs and in Where Lightning Strikes: Poems on the Holocaust. UKA Press International Creative Writing Competition Grand Prize for Naked with Glasses, stories. Finalist in SFWP Literary Award Contest (2017) for true crime memoir M is for Munchers: The Serial Killers Next Door.
Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (Sherri Szeman)
Awards include New York Times Book Review Notable Book and "Top 100 Books of the Year," University of Rochester Kafka Award for "Outstanding book of prose fiction by an American woman," and Talmadge McKinney Award for "Excellence in Research" for The Kommandant's Mistress. University of Cincinnati Elliston Poetry Prize for poems in Love in the Time of Dinosaurs and in Where Lightning Strikes: Poems on the Holocaust. UKA Press International Creative Writing Competition Grand Prize for Naked with Glasses, stories. Finalist in SFWP Literary Award Contest (2017) for true crime memoir M is for Munchers: The Serial Killers Next Door.
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Ali Smith – Gliff Q&A
Shortlisted author Ali Smith discusses the creative inspirations behind Gliff and reflects on the significance of libraries throughout her reading and writing life in our latest Q&A.
