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Karin Cecile Davidson

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Genre

Fiction, Historical Fiction

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Louise Erdrich, Lauren Groff, Eudora Welty, Alice Munro, Claire Keegan ...more

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May 2007

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Karin Cecile Davidson is the author of the story collection The Geography of First Kisses, winner of the 2022 Acacia Fiction Prize (Kallisto Gaia Press, April 2023), and the novel, Sybelia Drive (Braddock Avenue Books, October 2020). Her stories have been published in Five Points, The Massachusetts Review, Story Magazine, Colorado Review, The Los Angeles Review, Passages North, and elsewhere. Her awards include an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Waasmode Short Fiction Prize, the Orlando Prize for Short Fiction, a Peter Taylor Fellowship, and residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and The Studios of Key West. Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, she now lives in Columbus, Ohio.

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Archived Interviews, Reviews, & Writing on Writing for Sybelia Drive

From Steph Post’s Interview Series Writer Bites! - October 2, 2020

It's been a minute, hasn't it? The world may seem off the rails, but at least we'll always have books... Today, I'm thrilled to bring you a Writer Bites interview with Karin Cecile Davidson whose debut novel, Sybelia Drive, hits shelves this coming Tuesday (10/6)!

Karin Cecile Davidson has written a keenly-observed novel about the

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