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    Voices of the Lost and Found
    Voices of the Lost and Found
    Voices of the Lost and Found
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    Voices of the Lost and Found

    By Dorene O'Brien

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    A gripping and original debut collection of short stories from Michigan writer Dorene O’Brien.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWayne State University Press
    Release dateMay 10, 2007
    ISBN9780814335314
    Voices of the Lost and Found
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    Dorene O'Brien

    Dorene O’Brien is a fiction writer and a teacher of creative writing at the College for Creative Studies and Wayne State University in Detroit. She has won numerous awards for her fiction, including the Bridport Prize for her short story “#12 Dagwood on Rye,” Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award for “Riding the Hubcap,” and the New Millennium Writings Fiction Award for “Ovenbirds.” In 2004 she was also awarded a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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