Leah Kaminsky won the prestigious Voss Literary Prize for her debut novel, The Waiting Room (Vintage 2015, Harper Perennial US 2016). Other books include ‘We’re all Going to Die’ (Harper Collins, 2016), ‘Writer MD’ (Knopf US), and she co-authored ‘Cracking the Code’ (Vintage 2015). She holds an MFA in fiction from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Leah Kaminsky
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