Hanna Halperin, SOMETHING WILD: A Novel

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Debut novelist Hanna Halperin joins Zibby to discuss how the writing she produced during her MFA intersected with her role as a domestic abuse counselor to lead her to her book, Something Wild. Hanna shares how she immersed herself in the story so much that her characters surprised her, the research she conducted to accurately portray a nearby neighborhood as the backdrop for the plot, and what conversations she hopes her novel will spark.

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1:19.0	mini podcasts. I hope you enjoy. Hannah Halperin is the author of Something Wild. She's a graduate of the
1:24.8	MFA program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
1:32.9	Her stories have been published in the Kenyon Review, N-plus-1, New Ohio Review, Joyland, and others.
1:38.2	She has taught fiction workshops at Grub Street in Boston and worked as a domestic violence counselor.
1:39.9	This is her debut novel.
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