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Born October 15, 1974 (age 50) • Omaha • Nebraska
Notable Works “An Untamed State” • “Bad Feminist” • “Difficult Women” • “Graceful Burdens” • “Hear to Slay” • “Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body” • “Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticisms, and Minding Other People’s Business” • “The Sacrifice of Darkness”

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