Patricia AverbachPatricia Averbach, a Cleveland native, is the former director of the Chautauqua Writers Center in Chautauqua, New York. She is the 2013 winner of the London-based Lumen/Camden Poetry Prize. As part of the prize, a poetry chapbook, Missing Persons, wil be published late in 2013. Her previous work includes a memoir about her very early career as Anzia Yezierska�s sixteen year old literary assistant, and an article about the Jewish community in a virtual world called Second Life. She holds a degree in speech pathology from Case Western Reserve University where she worked in a deaf nursery during the 1970s. She is married to Attorney Mark Averbach and is the mother of two grown daughters, Ann and Elana. This is her first novel. Read More Read Less