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<span class="text"><font color="#000000" class="text"> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><img alt="" src="http://www.sitewelder.com/users/SarahVanArsdale2537/images/SarahVanArsdale2537645632T.jpg" /></font></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Sarah Van Arsdale has taught writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Hunter College, the University of Vermont, Vermont College and at the Mercantile Library's Center for Fiction. She works as a freelance editor, and she is Senior Staff Writer for the Sheffield School of Interior Design in New York City. She is on the board of the Ferro-Grumley Awards and has served on the Money for Women Fund/ Barbara Deming Award, and has been a fiction judge for the Astraea Foundation.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">In addition to writing fiction, memoir and reviews, she is also an illustrator, currently making short animated films from her watercolor drawings.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Sarah Van Arsdale is the author of:</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></p> <p><img alt="" src="http://sitemanager.sitewelder.com/users/SarahVanArsdale2537/images/SarahVanArsdale25371022145T.jpg" /></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><i>Blue</i> is the 2003. winner of the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel, and was published by the University of Tennessee Press in 2003.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">"I was taken from the very beginning by the subtle, propulsive mix of lyrical and analytical prose in this compact but deep novel about identity and loss, memory and the moment, dream and the everyday life." ---Alan Cheuse said in selecting <i>Blue</i> for the Peter Taylor Prize.<br type="_moz" /> </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">And:</span></p> <p> <img alt="" src="http://sitemanager.sitewelder.com/users/SarahVanArsdale2537/images/SarahVanArsdale25371022146T.jpg" /></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> <i>Toward Amneisa</i> was published in 1996 by Riverhead Books.<br /> </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">"The voice Sarah Van Arsdale creates in <em>Toward Amnesia</em> is unforgettable, as fresh and vivid as a cold summer lake. Smart and full of feeling, Van Arsdale understands both loss and the reeducation of the heart to which loss, if we're lucky, can lead." ---Poet Mark Doty</span></p> <p> </p> <p style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">you can order either book ($20 for <i>Blue</i>, available only in hardcover; $12 for <i>Toward Amnesia</i> in paperback, $4 postage) directly from the author at sva@together.net</span></p> <p style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">you can order both for $30 including postage</span></p> <p style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><br /> </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><br /> <br style="font-family: Verdana;" /> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span> </span></p></font></span><br> <h1> writing classes writers retreat writing contest</h1>
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