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Caryn Green

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Born

in Chicago, The United States

March 06

Website

https://www.manitou-cedarpress.com

Genre

Historical Fiction, Memoir, Travel

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Caryn Green, citizen journalist is an award-winning essayist, author and indie publisher whose legacy media career spanned decades, from broadcast to metro dailies to monthly magazines. Her articles on topics ranging from travel, lifestyle, and the arts to history, religion and the environment have been published in numerous defunct and still-extant periodicals and websites.

Overland:Remembering Southeast Asia, her first book won the NIEA Award for New Adult Non-Fiction in 2018. A short story, 'Commitment,'was anthologized in Meaningful Conflicts, which won the Foreword Indie Silver Award in 2023.

Her new release, Better Angel is a 'magical memoir' fact/fiction mashup that recounts a transcontinental train trip in the autumn of 2017 accompa ...more

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