A Conversation With Lev Raphael

[robert_allen]

Lev Raphael was born and raised in New York City, the son of Holocaust survivors. He did an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he won the Harvey Swados Fiction Prize, awarded by Martha Foley for a story that was later published in Redbook. His first collection of short stories, Dancing on Tisha B'Av, won a 1990 Lambda Literary Award and has been in print ever since; St. Martin's Press is currently planning a 10th anniversary edition. Raphael is also the author of a literary novel, Winter Eyes; a collection of memoirs and essays, Journeys & Arrivals; a book about Edith Wharton's life and fiction; and four co-authored books in psychology and education.

Raphael's literary fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in two dozen anthologies in the U.S. and Britain, most recently in American Jewish Fiction: A Century of Stories, which includes work by Saul Bellow, Cynthia Ozick, Allegra Goodman and other luminaries. He is a winner of Amelia's Reed Smith Fiction Prize and International Quarterly's Crossing Boundaries Prize for innovative prose, awarded by D.M. Thomas. Raphael has also published dozens of stories, essays, and articles in a wide range of newspapers, magazines and journals.


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[yoyo011]

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