Background
Eidus grew up in the Bronx, and she has since lived in the Virgin Islands, California, Iowa and upstate New New York
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Janice Eidus
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Johns Hopkins University.
Career
She has a master"s degree in fiction writing from The Johns Hopkins University. Her novels include The Last Jewish Virgin (2010), The War of the Rosens (2008), Urban Bliss (2001), and Faithful Rebecca (1987). She has also published collections of short stories, including The Celibacy Club and Vito Loves Geraldine, and has been published in numerous anthologies.
Her essay "Soft, Warm, and Fuzzy" appears in the anthology Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting (2013), published by West. West. Norton & Company.
Achievements
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Janice Eidus has twice won the O.Henry Prize for her short stories, as well as a Pushcart Prize, a Redbook Prize, the Acker Award Foreign Fiction, and numerous other awards. The War of the Rosens has garnered critical acclaim, won the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Award in Religious Fiction, and was nominated for the Sophie Brody Medal, an award for the most distinguished contribution to Jewish Literature for Adults.
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Awards
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Pushcart Prize; the Acker Award For Fiction
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.