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Miriam Karmel’s writing has appeared in numerous publications including Bellevue Literary Review, The Talking Stick, Pearl, Dust & Fire, Passager, Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, and Water~Stone Review. She is the recipient of Minnesota Monthly’s 2002 Tamarack Award, the Kate Braverman Short Story Prize, and the Arthur Edelstein Prize for Short Fiction. Her story “The King of Marvin Gardens” was anthologized in Milkweed Edition’s Fiction on a Stick . Being Esther is her first novel.