Janice Eidus

Janice Eidus is an American writer living in New York City. Her novels include The War of the Rosens, The Last Jewish Virgin and Urban Bliss. She's twice won the O.Henry Prize for Fiction, as well as a Pushcart Prize. Other awards include The Acker Award for Achievement, an Independent Book Award, and The Firecracker Award given by the Community of Literary Magazines & Presses. She's taught at such universities as Carlow University, the University of New Orleans, and The New School and at writers' conferences all over the world, including The Writers Workshop of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, Sanibel Island Writers Conference and the Chautauqua Writers Conference. She is also a private writing coach. Her fiction and nonfiction appear in such anthologies as How Does That Make You Feel: True Confessions From Both Sides of the Therapy Couch, The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories, 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11, Common Boundary: An Anthology About Immigration and International Adoption, Dirt: Writers on the Quirks, Habits, and Passions of Keeping House and Desire: Women Write About Wanting. Her essays often appear in Purpleclover.com.

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