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Where We Live: The 2010 Girls Write Now Anthology

Guided by this year’s theme Where We Live, we embraced our surroundings — the intimacy of our bedrooms; stoops and street corners; even beyond our city limits.

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“A diverse group of voices fill the following pages, their reach undeniable: In our heads, in our words, and on the page, we reverberate off skyscrapers and bridges, echo through subway grates and school corridors, and melt in the corner coffee shop. From countries that dot the globe, to all five boroughs of New York, to our central Midtown Manhattan meeting point, we receive humbling assurance not only about the imperative of sharing our words, but that those words — and we — represent the world around us.”

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Foreword by

Nami Mun

Nami Mun grew up in Seoul, South Korea and the Bronx, New York. For her first book, Miles from Nowhere (2009), she received a Pushcart Prize, the Chicago Public Library’s 21st Century Award, and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers and the Asian American Literary Award. Miles From Nowhere was selected as Editors’ Choice and Top Ten First Novels by Booklist, Best Fiction of 2009 So Far by Amazon, and as an Indie Next Pick. Chicago Magazine named her Best New Novelist of 2009. Nami has worked as an Avon Lady, a street vendor, a photojournalist, a waitress, an activities coordinator for a nursing home, and a criminal defense investigator. After earning a GED, she went on to get a BA in English from UC Berkeley, an MFA from University of Michigan, and has received fellowships from organizations such as Yaddo, MacDowell, Bread Loaf, and Tin House. In 2009 she received a Whiting Award in Fiction, and in 2011 she became a US Delegate for a China/America Writers Exchange in Beijing and Chicago. Her stories have been published in Granta, Tin House, The Iowa Review, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Evergreen Review, Witness, and elsewhere. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in Chicago.

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Where We Live: The 2010 Anthology

An Excerpt by a Girls Write Now Mentee

“Soon enough, when the sun is waning down over the river, you will reach home. Hang up your lost self on a closet door and look at it for a while. Climb into bed and rest your aching feet. Look at that lost self in the fading light, and then in near darkness. You will bleach it, soak it, dry it in a towel. It looks a little different than before, and you do not try it on for fear that it will not fit. Did you take the wrong self by accident? And then, one day, you will open the curtains and let the naked light into the room, and you will try yourself on again.”
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Emma Fiske-Dobell Mentee

Intersectional Voices in Editorial Print Committee

Every year, the Intersectional Voices in Editorial (IV Edit) Print Committee brings their talents to the task of editing, producing, and promoting this fresh collection of writing from today’s emerging voices. The committee is made up of mentors, mentees, and other volunteers who are passionate about diversifying the publishing landscape.

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