Ramona Ausubel is the author of the novel No One is Here Except All of Us (Riverhead Books, 2012), which was a 2012 New York Times Editors’ Choice, a San Francisco Chronicle and Huffington Post Best Book of the Year, and a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. Her new collection of stories, A Guide to Being Born (Riverhead Books, 2013), was a 2013 New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review Daily, One Story, The Best American Fantasy and was shortlisted in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading.  

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