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  <name><![CDATA[Dolen Perkins-Valdez]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Dolen Perkins-Valdezs fiction and essays have appeared or will appear in The Kenyon Review, StoryQuarterly, African American Review, PMS:  PoemMemoirStory, North Carolina Literary Review, Richard Wright Newsletter, and SLI:  Studies in Literary Imagination.  She is a 2009 finalist for the Robert Olen Butler Fiction Award.  A graduate of Harvard and a former University of California Presidents Postdoctoral Fellow, Dolen splits her time between Seattle and Washington, DC. &quot;]]></about>            
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Wench: A Novel]]></title>
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  <published>2010</published>  
  
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