Mrs. Beast (34 page)

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Pamela Ditchoff is the author of two previous novels,
Seven Days & Seven Sins,
Shaye Areheart Books at Random, 2003, and
The Mirror of Monsters and Prodigies
, Coffee House Press, 1995.
 
She is also the author of two teaching texts and her poetry and short fiction have been published in many literary magazines and anthologies.

Ditchoff is a past winner of the Chicago Review Award for Fiction. She is also the recipient of a John Ciardi Scholarship at the Bread Loaf Writing Conference, and The Walter Dakin Fellowship at the Sewanee Writer’s Conference.

Ditchoff holds a Master’s Degree in English/Creative Writing from Michigan State University and she has worked as a television copywriter, university instructor, and for Creative Writers in Schools Program. She lives in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada.