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Sara Lippmann is the author of the novels Lech and Hidden River and the story collections Doll Palace and Jerks. Her fiction has won the Lilith Fiction Prize and has been honored by the New York Foundation for the Arts, and her essays have appeared in The Millions, The Washington Post, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. With Seth Rogoff, she co-edited the anthology Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible. She is a co-founder of Writing Co-lab, an artist-run online teaching cooperative, and the editor in chief of Epiphany magazine. She lives in Brooklyn.

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	Jerks 4.14 avg rating — 167 ratings — 3 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
	Lech 3.97 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	Doll Palace 4.41 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2014 — 4 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
	Shut Down Strangers & Hot Rod Angels: an anthology inspired by the music of Bruce Springsteen by Jessie Lynn McMains (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gary Leising (Contributor), Sara Lippmann (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings	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
	Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible by Sara Lippmann (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Seth Rogoff (Goodreads Author) (editor) 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — 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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	Heavy Feather Review 4.1 by Heavy Feather, Taryn Andrews, Ace Boggess (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2015	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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