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An in-store event with Heather Frese, author of "The Baddest Girl on the Planet" and "The Saddest Girl on the Beach", in conversation with author Michelle Herman. --------------------------------------------------------------------
Heather Frese’s debut novel, The Baddest Girl on the Planet, won the Lee Smith Novel Prize, was longlisted for The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and was named one of the Women’s National Book Association’s Great Group Reads of 2021. She attended Ohio University for her M.A. followed by an M.F.A. in fiction from West Virginia University. A freelance writer, Heather worked with Outer Banks publications as well as publishing short fiction, essays, poetry, and interviews in various literary journals, including Michigan Quarterly Review, the Los Angeles Review, Front Porch, the Barely South Review, Switchback, and elsewhere. Coastal North Carolina is her longtime love and source of inspiration, her writing deeply influenced by the wild magic and history of the Outer Banks. She currently writes, edits, and teaches in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Michelle Herman is the author of the novels Missing, Dog, Devotion, and Close-Up and the collection of novellas A New and Glorious Life, as well as three essay collections—The Middle of Everything, Stories We Tell Ourselves, and Like A Song—and a book for children, A Girl's Guide to Life. She writes a popular family advice column for Slate and taught creative writing for many years at Ohio State, in the MFA program she co-founded there in the early 1990s. A new collection of her essays is due out in 2025.
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631 S 3rd St, Columbus, OH, United States, Ohio 43206
