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So we're going to get the
night started with Naomi.

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So Naomi Benaron's books
include Running The Rift,

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Winner of the 2010 Bellwether
Prize for Fiction and Love

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Letters from A Fat Man, winner
of the GS Sharat Chandra Prize

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for Short Fiction

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A poet as well as a fiction
writer, Naomi's work

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has appeared in Hayden's Ferry
Review, jewishfiction.net,

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Spillway Journal, Blast
Furnace, and Prime Number.

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She holds an MFA in Fiction
from Antioch University

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in Los Angeles and an MS in
Earth Sciences from Scripps

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Institution of Oceanography.

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She teaches at Pima
Community College and online

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through the Afghan
Women's Writing Project.

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An advocate for African
refugees in her community,

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she has worked extensively
with genocide survivor

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groups in Rwanda.

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And she is also an
Ironman triathlete,

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so let's please
welcome Naomi Benaron.

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