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Bridget Hoida
Biography
Bridget Hoida lives and writes in an imaginary subdivision off the coast of Southern California.
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In a past life she was a librarian, a DJ, a high school teacher and a barista. In this life she experiments with poetry and fiction and has taught writing at UC Irvine, the University of Southern California and Saddleback College.
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Bridget is the recipient of an Anna Bing Arnold Fellowship and the Edward Moses prize for fiction. She was a finalist in the Joseph Henry Jackson/San Francisco Intersection for the Arts Award for a first novel and the William Faulkner Pirate’s Alley first novel contest. Her short stories have appeared in the Berkeley Fiction Review, Mary, and Faultline Journal, among others, and she was a finalist in the Iowa Review Fiction Prize and the Glimmer Train New Writer’s Short Story Contest. Her poetry has been recognized as an Academy of American Poets Prize finalist and she was a Future Professoriate Scholar at USC.
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She has a BA from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California.
So L.A. is her first novel.
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In a past life she was a librarian, a DJ, a high school teacher and a barista. In this life she experiments with poetry and fiction and has taught writing at UC Irvine, the University of Southern California and Saddleback College.
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Bridget is the recipient of an Anna Bing Arnold Fellowship and the Edward Moses prize for fiction. She was a finalist in the Joseph Henry Jackson/San Francisco Intersection for the Arts Award for a first novel and the William Faulkner Pirate’s Alley first novel contest. Her short stories have appeared in the Berkeley Fiction Review, Mary, and Faultline Journal, among others, and she was a finalist in the Iowa Review Fiction Prize and the Glimmer Train New Writer’s Short Story Contest. Her poetry has been recognized as an Academy of American Poets Prize finalist and she was a Future Professoriate Scholar at USC.
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She has a BA from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California.
So L.A. is her first novel.
Where to find Bridget Hoida online
Website: http://bridgethoida.com/
Facebook: Facebook profile
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bridget-hoida/31/6a/bb0
Facebook: Facebook profile
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bridget-hoida/31/6a/bb0
Where to buy in print
Books
So L.A.
by Bridget Hoida
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 90,490.
Language:
English.
Published: June 22, 2012
and represented
by
van Haitsma Literary.
Categories:
Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Women's fiction » General
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
A fresh-faced San Joaquin Valley girl masterminds a wildly successful bottled water empire only to find herself sidelined as a pampered Beverly Hills wife. To escape an unraveling marriage and her twin brother's tragic death, Magdalena embraces the L.A. lifestyle with a comic vengeance. ”This is a book Joan Didion will wish she’d written!” — Chris Abani, author of Graceland