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Brooke Shaffner

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Born

in Miami, FL, The United States

November 29

Website

https://sites.google.com/view/brookeshaffner/

Genre

Fiction, Memoir

Influences

Virginia Woolf, Jeannette Winterson, James Baldwin

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Brooke Shaffner’s novel COUNTRY OF UNDER won a Next Generation Indie Book Award Grand Prize for Fiction, the 2024 Foreword Indies Silver Award for Literary Fiction, and the 1729 Book Prize, judged by Diane Zinna. COUNTRY OF UNDER was the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction runner-up. Brooke’s work has appeared in Scoundrel Time, The Rumpus, The Hudson Review, Marie Claire, BOMB, Litmosphere, Lost and Found: Stories from New York, Necessary Fiction, and Big Indie Books. She has received grants from the Arts & Science Council, United States Artists, and the Saltonstall Foundation and residencies from MacDowell, Ucross, Saltonstall, the Edward Albee Foundation, Jentel, I-Park, and VCCA. Brooke is bisexual and grew up part Garza, ...more

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Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl

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“And it dawned on me that all we have, in the entire endless universe, is each other. It doesn’t matter to the stars what I do, but it does matter to us what we do. We are all we have.”
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“just made my life my apology, my way of loving them and showing up for them and telling them that I was proud of literally every aspect of who they were, and that I was listening to them and learning from them, and just spending time with them, fighting with them, and laughing with them, and apologizing to them when I was wrong or self-centered or short-tempered, and trying every day to give”
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