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Naomi Benaron won the 2010 Bellwether Prize for Fiction for her novel RUNNING THE RIFT, forthcoming from Algonquin books. She earned an MFA from Antioch University and an MS in earth sciences from Scripps Institute of Oceanography. She teaches online through UCLA Extension Writers' Program and the Afghan Women's Writing Project. An advocate for African refugees in her community, she 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 triathlete."


Average rating: 4.07 · 686 ratings · 226 reviews · 3 distinct works
Running the Rift
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The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
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“How much this book of life changes, he thought. And we are not the ones to write the pages.”
Naomi Benaron, Running the Rift

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