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“With all the innovation of the best
surealism, and the memorable, conflicted characters of the
gritty realism, The Longest Pregnancy defies categorization
and genre, and instead takes the reader on a journey full
of beautiful surprises. A truely unique collection”
—Gina Fragello, My Sister’s Continent
Melissa Fraterrigo’s stories have
been nominated for the Fountain Award from the Speculative
Literature Foundation and for a Pushcart Award. She was awarded
the Charles B. Wood Award for Distinguished Writing from The
Carolina Quarterly in 2001 and in 2000, won the Sam Adams/Zoetrope:
All-Story Short Fiction Contest. A graduate of Bowling Green
State University’s MFA program in creative writing, she now
lives and writes in Evergreen Park, Illinois.
—From melissafraterrigo.com
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