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Dorothy Johnston

Who: Dorothy Johnston. Where: Canberra, Australia. What: Dorothy’s an award winning Australian novelist. She’s written eight novels, one of which, The Trojan Dog, won the ACT Book of the Year prize in 2001. She has also written a collection of short stories, The Division of Love. She was born in Geelong, Victoria and trained as [...]

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Creative Writing Workshop - Rachel Ephraim

Rachel Ephraim is a creative writing instructor for Writopia Lab, a non-profit organization that holds writing workshops for kids 8-18. She is also Founder and Director of FreeBird Workshops, a grassroots workshop for adults in Brooklyn, NY. She is currently getting her M.F.A. from Columbia University and is working on her first novel, which is [...]

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Larry Specht

Who: Larry Specht Where: Washington, DC What: Larry has just completed a novel: Now Appearing in Baghdad. It’s a black comedy about an American software salesman who winds up in Baghdad a year after the US invasion. He figures he is the ultimate hip war profiteer, but pretty quickly he’s in way over his head [...]

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Julianne Mooney

Who: Julianne Mooney. Where: On the road a lot of the time, but mostly based in Dublin, Ireland. What: Julianne is author of the Time Out Guide for Ireland, published in July 2011 and does a fortnightly world travel slot on Ireland AM. In Her Words: On my first stay at La Muse, I stayed [...]

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Róisín Meaney

Who: Róisín Meaney. Where: Kerry, Ireland. What: Róisín is a bestselling Irish novelist and children’s book writer. Her newest novel, The Things We Do for Love, will be coming out soon in the states as Life Drawing for Beginners. In Their Words: What do you consider most valuable about your time at La Muse? The [...]

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Bios

Kerry Eielson is an honors graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison (B.A. in Comparative Literature with a poetry concentration in Creative Writing). She has worked in publishing in New York and Paris, at Self, ELLE, Talk and The New York Times; has ghostwritten several books on alternative healing, and authored a book about weddings. [...]

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