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Amanda Bestor-Siegal

Amanda Bestor-Siegal

How to pronounce Amanda Bestor-Siegal: BESS-tor-SEE-guhl

Amanda Bestor-Siegal Biography

Amanda Bestor-Siegal received her M.F.A. from the Michener Center for Writers, University of Texas, specializing in fiction and screenwriting. Her nonfiction work has been published in The Threepenny Review, River Teeth, and Salon. Amanda lived in France for four years before relocating to Austin, Texas. The Caretakers is her first novel.

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    The Caretakers

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    by Simon Han

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    R.J. Hoffmann

    RJ Hoffmann was born and raised in St. Louis and received an MFA in fiction from Columbia College Chicago. Hoffmann's writing has appeared in Barely South Review, The Sun, Harpur Palate, The Roanoke Review, Booth, and Lunch ... (more)

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    Other People's Children
    by R.J. Hoffmann

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