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Ann Lauterbach was born and grew up in New York City. After college (University of Wisconsin, Madison), she attended Columbia University on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, but moved to London before completing her MA in English literature. She lived in London for seven years, working variously in publishing and arts institutions. On her return, she worked for a number of years in art galleries in New York before she began teaching. She has taught at Brooklyn College, Columbia, Iowa, Princeton, and at the City College of New York and Graduate Center of CUNY. Since 1991 she has been Director of Writing in the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College, where she has been, since 1999, Ruth and David Schwab II Professor of Languages and Literature. Lauterbach has received a number of awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1986 and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship in 1993. She lives in New York City and in Germantown, New York.

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PHILIP BOOTH

Lifelines

JIM CARROLL

Fear of Dreaming

Void of Course

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Practical Gods

BARBARA CULLY

Desire Reclining

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Mystery, So Long

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Nerve Storm

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ALSO BY ANN LAUTERBACH

Also by Ann Lauterbach

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