Karin Lin-Greenberg
Karin Lin-Greenberg’s story collection Faulty Predictions won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and her story collection Vanished won the Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize. Her novel You Are Here is forthcoming. She lives in upstate New York and is an associate professor at Siena College.
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EN: After studying Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona, Rocio Bonilla worked in fields such as photography and advertising. Since 2010 she has forged two careers as an illustrator of children's books and a painter of murals.
ESP: Nací en Barcelona en 1970.
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Susan Elizabeth George is an American author of mystery novels set in Great Britain. Eleven of her novels, featuring her character Inspector Lynley, have been adapted for television by the BBC as The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.
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