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Episode Synopsis
Raised in Brooklyn, NY, Sabrina Orah Mark earned a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University. She also earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a PhD in English from the University of Georgia. She is the author of the poetry collectionsTsim Tsum,and The Babies. Her collection of stories,Wild Milk,won the Georgia Author of the Year Award for Short Story and was a finalist for the Townsend Prize for Fiction.Mark’s accomplishments include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center, and a Creative Capital Award. In addition to teaching private workshops she currently teaches nonfiction, fiction, and poetry for the Bennington Writing Seminars. She lives in Athens, Georgia, with her husband, Reginald McKnight, and their two sons.Books by Sabrina Orah Mark:Happily (Random House, 2023)Wild Milk (Dorothy, 2018)The Babies (Saturnalia, 2004)Tsim Tsum (Saturnalia, 2009)Also Mentioned:Episode 33: Sabrina Orah Mark Nadja SpeiglemanBruno Schultz’s fairytale murals“Borges and I” by Jorges Louis BorgesGrimm’s fairytalesLidia YuknavitchBella BaxterThe Golden KeyAngela Carter“The Aleph” by Jorge Luis BorgesReading with Rachel (2024-2025 cycle)
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