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Kari Wergeland

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Kari Wergeland, who hails from Davis, California, is a librarian and writer. She moved to Oregon at the age of 14 and eventually attended the University of Oregon, where she earned a B.A. in English. She holds an M.L.S. in Librarianship from the University of Washington and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Pacific University. She has worked in pubic libraries, as well as higher education. She also wrote a children’s book review column for The Seattle Times, which ran monthly for 11 years.

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	Voice Break it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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My COVID-19 Novel

My COVID novel—probably chick lit (and not about COVID-19)—is a project I’ve been wrestling with since 2002. 2002 is misleading from an “amount of time spent writing” standpoint. I’ve probably put 5 to 7 part-time years into the draft I’m working on right now. The rest of the time, the project languished in storage, lost (but that’s another story).

During the fall of 2019, I tracked down the manus

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Collected Poems

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