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Kevin Haworth

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Kevin Haworth's first novel, The Discontinuity of Small Things, was awarded the Samuel Goldberg Prize for best Jewish fiction by a writer under 40. It was also recognized as runner-up for the 2006 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. A two-time resident of the Vermont Studio Center, he is also a winner of the David Dornstein Prize for Young Jewish Writers and the Permafrost Fiction Prize. His fiction and nonfiction appear in Sentence, ACM, Poetica, Permafrost, and others. He lives in Athens, Ohio with his wife, Rabbi Danielle Leshaw, and their two children, Zev and Ruthie. He teaches writing and literature at Ohio University.


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Average rating: 3.69 · 36 ratings · 13 reviews · 7 distinct works · Similar authors
The Discontinuity of Small ...
3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2005
Famous Drownings in Literar...
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