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Roberta F. King lives in Muskegon and is the Vice President of PR & Marketing at Grand Rapids Community Foundation. Outside of her professional public relations writing, her articles and essays have been published in Atticus Review, Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers, The Boiler, Hippocampus, Lifelines (the literary journal of The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College) and in The Rapidian. He Plays a Harp is her first book.

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He Plays a Harp

4.57 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2014

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The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories

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