Writer, visual artist, and musician Shira Erlichman is the author of Odes to Lithium (2019) which won the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry and is the writer-illustrator of the picture book Be/Hold: A Friendship Book (2019). Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Seattle Times, The Huffington Post, The Nation, and PBS, among others. A finalist for the Lambda award and a recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, she runs In Surreal Life: an Online Global Creativity School and is a Visiting Professor in the Randolph College Low-Residency MFA. Her debut novel, Tangerapple, is forthcoming from Knopf in June 2027. She lives in Brooklyn with her wife. 

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