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Leaving Yuba City : new and selected poems / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
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- ISBN: 0385488548 :
- Physical Description: xii, 114 p. ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed.
- Publisher: New York : Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1997.
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Leaving Yuba City : Poems
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni was born in India and later moved to the United States to attend college. She earned a M. A. at Wright State University and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Divakaruni held many odd jobs until she was able to become an accomplished writer. She was the president of MAITRI, a crisis hotline for female South Asian victims of domestic abuse, and is currently a professor at Foothill College in California. Her works have been recognized in more than 50 magazines and 30 anthologies. She also has been awarded two PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Awards, a Pushcart Prize, and the Allen Ginsberg Poerty Prize. Divakaruni's books include Arranged Marriage and The Mistress of Spices. Her Title One Amazing Thing made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography)
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