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As the daughter of a political refugee, I grew up hearing my dad’s stories of persecution in communist Hungary. His escape inspired me to pursue a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures, and I’ve taught Soviet history and literature at Stanford University, San Quentin prison, and the Jewish Community High School of the Bay. I write full-time as an Arts & Culture reporter for the San Francisco Standard and am represented by Jennie Kendrick at Red Fox Literary.
Trees and Other Teachers
a botanical coming-of-age novel about love and loss
“My dad left me on Bodega Highway…
…where gnarled apple trees quilt the hills. In a split-second car crash, he vanished like a cruel magic trick. The redwoods there reach to the sky like lean fingers, pulling in fog from the ocean. Maybe that fog pulled him up and away. Maybe it wrapped his body around the trees’ crowns like spun cotton candy.”
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I was a senior at New York University in September of 2001 …