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Patty Kirk

Fiction, Memoir

Patty Kirk is writer in residence and associate professor of English at John Brown University. She is an award-winning writer and author of Confessions of an Amateur Believer and Starting from Scratch: Memoirs of a Wandering Cook.


Festival Years: 2014
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