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Patricia Eakins [1]

Listed as: 
Fiction Writer, Poet
Public address: 
New York, NY
New York US
Bio: 

I wanted to create stories that read as if they came from the body of lost history. I had the sense, and have it now, that most of the history of most of the world has necessarily always been lost. And partly I wrote the stories to console myself for this loss, which I felt as a wound — a wound in the world, but also a personal wound, a loss as 'original' to me as some people think sin is to mankind. A powerful sense of challenge and joy resides for me in the notion that there is a vast repository of untold story I can make and remake.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Philadelphia
Raised in: 
Detroit, MI
Website: 
https://www.fabulara.com [2]
Prizes won: 

NYU Press Prize for Fiction, Capricorn Prize of the Writer's Voice, two NEA creative-writing fellowships, Aga Khan Prize from the Paris Review, NYFA literary fellowship.

Prefers to work with: 
Any

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[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/patricia_eakins [2] https://www.fabulara.com