Patricia Dunn’s debut novel, REBELS BY ACCIDENT tells the story of a troubled teen sent to Cairo who finds
revolution is everywhere, including in ourselves. She has an MFA in
creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College where she also teaches.
She has traveled throughout the Middle East, and lived in Jordan and Egypt before settling back down in
New York where she lives with her teenage son and her toddler dog.
Thaddeus Rutkowski grew up in central Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Cornell University and The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of the innovative novels Haywire,Tetched, and Roughhouse. He teaches literature at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn and fiction writing at the Writer's Voice of the West Side YMCA in Manhattan. He was awarded a 2012 fellowship in fiction writing from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives with his wife, Randi Hoffman, and their daughter, Shay, in Manhattan.
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