Sherril Jaffe is the author of six books of fiction: Scars Make Your Body More Interesting, This Flower Only Blooms Every Hundred Years, The Unexamined Wife, The Faces Reappear, House Tours, and Interior Designs, as well as two memoirs: Ground Rules and One God Clapping (a collaboration with her late husband, Alan Lew), winner of the Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence, a PEN Award. Her short stories appear widely in journals such as Epoch, Alaska Quarterly Review, Zyzzyva, and Volt. A professor of creative writing at Sonoma State University, she lives in San Francisco and walks in Golden Gate Park every day.
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