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Magdalena Zurawski

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born

January 01, 1972 in Newark, NJ, The United States

gender

female

website

http://minoramerican.blogspot.com/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Gay & Lesbian

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Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein, Thomas Bernhard, Jack Spicer, Clark Coo...more

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August 2008

About this author

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The Bruise: Winner of the Ronald Sukenick Prize for Innovative Fiction and the 2009 Lambda Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction.

About the Author

Magdalena Zurawski was born in 1972 to Polish immigrants in New Jersey, where she attended Catholic School for twelve years before escaping north to Providence, Rhode Island to study literature at Brown. Currently, she lives in Durham, North Carolina. The Bruise is her first book.

http://fc2.org/zurawski/bruise/bruise...
http://xpoetics.blogspot.com/
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article...

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Average rating: 4.29 · 68 ratings · 18 reviews · 2 distinct works

	The Bruise 4.28 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Forms at War: FC2 1999-2009 by R.M. Berry (Editor), Fiction Collective Two (U.S.) Staff (Contribution by), Ralph M. Berry (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009	My rating:

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Tottering State: Selected and New Poems, 1963-1983

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Paradise Lost

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