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Brenda Arnold

Ms. Arnold has enjoyed a varied career as a professional flamenco dancer, a story analyst at MGM and Universal Studios, and a writer of short fiction. Her stories have won two of the annual short fiction contests sponsored by the National League of American Pen Women. Her work has also won the prestigious Hackney Literary Award for short fiction. She began The Art of Becoming Another Person Entirely during an invitation-only workshop led by the ever-brilliant Justin Cronin, who encouraged her to write a novel and then taught her how. Now far from the dazzling beaches of Southern California, she lives a tranquil life with the family she loves so much and with the ghosts of her many pugs.