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Danielle Evans
Author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self and Recipient of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” Award
Danielle Evans is the winner of the 2011 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree. A graduate of Columbia University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, her stories have appeared in The Paris Review, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories 2008, andThe Best American Short Stories 2010. Her collection of stories, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, is her first book. She lives in Washington, D.C.
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Featured Book
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
"Danielle Evans's whipsmart first story collection charts the liminal years between childhood and the condition dubiously known as being a grown-up...Fiercely independent, all of Evans's characters struggle for a place in a world intent on fencing them out. But as her title suggests, the biggest obstacles they face are often their own selves."
—The New York Times Book Review
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- Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
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