Martha Grace Duncan's essay, "What Not to Do When Your Roommate is Murdered in Italy," won the Judith Siegel Pearson Award for the best writing about women in 2014. A longer version of the essay was published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender and garnered invitations to speak at the Harvard Law School and the Max Planck Institute in Halle, Germany. Her other essays and memoirs have appeared, inter alia, in the Gettysburg Review, Five Points, Appalachian Review, and Passages North. She is completing a book-length memoir, Death of a Dreamer.
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