Background
Durrow, the daughter of a white Danish immigrant and an African-American Air Force man, grew up in part overseas in Turkey, Germany, and Denmark.
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The Girl Who Fell from the Sky Audiobook, CD, Unabridged Publisher: HighBridge Company; Unabridged, 7 hours on 6 CDs edition
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The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
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The Girl Who Fell from the Sky Publisher: Algonquin Books; Reprint edition
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Heidi Durrow
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In 1980 her family settled in Portland, Oregon, where she attended Jefferson High School. She continued her education at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and received a Master of Surgery in 1992. She then attended Yale Law School and received her Juris Doctor in 1995.
Career
Early life and education
She majored in English at Stanford University and wrote a weekly column for the Stanford Daily, graduating in 1991 with Honors. Durrow’s career began at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City, where she worked as a corporate litigator on antitrust, commercial contracts, and employment discrimination cases. She left Cravath in 1997 to pursue a literary career.
Durrow worked as a consultant to the National Basketball Association and National Football League as a Life Skills trainer from 2000 to 2006.
Durrow was a host of the award-winning weekly podcast Mixed Chicks Chat focused on issues of being racially and culturally mixed. The Festival—which ran from 2008 to 2012—celebrated stories of the Mixed experience including stories about biracial identity, transracially adopted families, and interracial and intercultural relationships and friendships.
The Festival presented films, readings, workshops, a family event, and the largest West Coast "((Loving Day celebration))".
Durrow created a new festival called the Mixed Remixed Festival which premiered June 14, 2014.
Achievements
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2004: Winner, Chapter One Fiction Contest 2004: Jerome Foundation Award for Emerging Writers 2004: Winner, Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition 2004: Fellowship in Fiction, New York Foundation for the Arts 2007: Creative Artist Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society 2007: Elizabeth George Foundation Grant for Writers 2007: Creative Artist Fellowship, American Scandinavian Foundation 2007: Roth Endowment Award 2008: Bellwether Prize for Literature of Social Change, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky.
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PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction NAACP Image Award 2004: Winner, Chapter One Fiction Contest 2004: Jerome Foundation Award for Emerging Writers 2004: Winner, Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition 2004: Fellowship in Fiction, New York Foundation for the Arts 2007: Creative Artist Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society 2007: Elizabeth George Foundation Grant for Writers 2007: Creative Artist Fellowship, American Scandinavian Foundation 2007: Roth Endowment Award 2008: Bellwether Prize for Literature of Social Change, The Girl Who Fell From the SkyPEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction NAACP Image Award 2004: Winner, Chapter One Fiction Contest 2004: Jerome Foundation Award for Emerging Writers 2004: Winner, Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition 2004: Fellowship in Fiction, New York Foundation for the Arts 2007: Creative Artist Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society 2007: Elizabeth George Foundation Grant for Writers 2007: Creative Artist Fellowship, American Scandinavian Foundation 2007: Roth Endowment Award 2008: Bellwether Prize for Literature of Social Change, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky