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Jack Livings

Jack Livings Biography

Jack Livings is author of The Dog, which was awarded the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the Rome Prize for Literature, and was included on best book of the year lists by the Times Literary Supplement and the New York Times. His short stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories and have been awarded two Pushcart Prizes. His first novel, The Blizzard Party, was published in 2021. He lives in New York with his family.

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