Avra Wing

Avra Wing is the author of the novel Angie, I Says, which was made into the movie Angie starring Geena Davis and James Gandolfini. She is also a poet: her poetry collection, Recurring Dream, won the 2011 Pecan Grove Press Chapbook Competition, and she's published poems in numerous literary magazines. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, and her memoir, Doorway on the Mountain, is available at OnlineOriginals.com. Avra's work teaching creative writing for the New York Writers Coalition was recognized with a grant from Poets and Writers. She also taught for 10 years as an adjunct professor of English at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, New York. She lives in Brooklyn, where she and her husband raised three (wonderful) children.