Jan Cherubin
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Jan Cherubin's novel The Orphan's Daughter is a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020. Cherubin grew up in Baltimore and received a B.A. in English literature from Bennington College in Vermont. She was once a fact checker at New York magazine, a staff writer at the New York Daily News and an editor at Seventeen Magazine. After moving to Los Angeles, she became a style writer for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and later, a playwright and standup comic. Her plays have been staged at Ensemble Studio Theater L.A. and she has performed standup at the Hollywood Improv, The Ice House, and Flappers. She returned to Bennington in 2006 and earned an MFA in fiction from the Bennington Writing seminars. Jan taught writing at Santa Monica College, presently teaches writing online, and in her long career as a student, studied writing with Bernard Malamud, John Gardner, Barry Hannah, Jill McCorkle, Alice McDermott, and Charles Baxter among others. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. Jan lives in Santa Monica, California, with her husband, writer Roger Director, and during pandemics, their daughter, Chloe. The Orphan's Daughter received a coveted star from Kirkus Reviews. They deemed the book "epic and indelible."
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