Jodi Varon

Dr. Varon is the author of Drawing to an Inside Straight: The Legacy of an Absent Father (University of Missouri Press), a WILLA Award finalist from Women Writing the West.  Other awards include a first place award in non-fiction from New Millennium Writing, The William Stafford Fellowship in Non-Fiction from Literary Arts, and two awards to publishers from Literary Arts for Calapooya and basalt.  Her fiction and non-fiction appear in New Letters, The Northwest Review, The Seattle Review, the High Plains Literary Review, WomenArts Quarterly, The Western Humanities Review, the Oregon Encyclopedia, among others.  Also a translator from the Chinese, her translation of the Tang Dynasty poet Li He are collected in The Rock's Cold Breath: Selected Poems of Li He (Ice River Press).

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Best American Essays 2021*

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