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  <name><![CDATA[Magdalena Zurawski]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[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.htm
http://xpoetics.blogspot.com/
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6584376.html]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein, Thomas Bernhard, Jack Spicer, Clark Coolidge, Immanuel Kant, Bruce Springsteen, Eileen Myles]]></influences>  <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Newark, NJ</hometown>  <born_at>01/01/1972</born_at>    
  
  
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