Naomi Benaron 2014

Naomi
Benaron

Naomi Benaron holds an MFA from Antioch University and an MS in earth sciences from Scripps Institute of Oceanography. She teaches for UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, mentors for the Afghan Women’s Writing Project, and has worked extensively with genocide survivor groups in Rwanda. She has won the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction and the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. She is also an Ironman triathelete.

Naomi Benaron holds an MFA from Antioch University and an MS in earth sciences from Scripps Institute of Oceanography. She teaches for UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, mentors for the Afghan Women’s Writing Project, and has worked extensively with genocide survivor groups in Rwanda. She has won the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction and the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. She is also an Ironman triathelete.

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