GUEST INTERVIEW: VICTORIA PATTERSON - "THE EDITH WHARTON OF THE OC"

We're pleased to offer a special guest interview today from occasional TEV contributor Kate Durbin, in which she chats with Victoria Patterson, author of Drift, a collection of interlinked short stories, published in June 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in various literary journals, including The Southern Review, Santa Monica Review and The Florida Review.

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