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EPISODE · Feb 9, 2026 · 53 MIN

First Draft - Ann Packer

from First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing · host Mitzi Rapkin

Ann Packer is the author of four best-selling novels including Some Bright Nowhere, The Children’s Crusade, Songs Without Words, and The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, which received the Kate Chopin Literary Award among many other prizes and honors. Her short fiction has been published in two collections — Mendocino and Other Stories and Swim Back to Me — and includes stories that appeared in The New Yorker and in the O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies. Ann’s work has been translated into over a dozen languages and published around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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