Jim Krusoe is an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. His stories and poems have appeared in ''

Antioch Review ''The Antioch Review'' is an American literary magazine established in 1941 at Antioch College in Ohio. The magazine was published on a quarterly basis. One of the oldest continuously published literary magazines in the United States prior to it b ...

'', '' Denver Quarterly'', ''

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'', '' Field'', '' North American Review'', ''

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Santa Monica Review Santa Monica College (SMC) is a public, community college in Santa Monica, California. Founded as a junior college in 1929, SMC enrolls over 30,000 students in more than 90 fields of study. Although initially serving primarily pre-college high sc ...

'', which he founded in 1988. His essays and book reviews have appeared in '' Manoa'', the ''Los Angeles Times Book Review'', ''The New York Times'' and the '' Washington Post''. He is a recipient of fellowships from the

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and the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund. He teaches at Santa Monica College and in the graduate writing program at Antioch University, Los Angeles. His novel ''Iceland'' was selected by the '' Los Angeles Times'' and the '' Austin Chronicle'' as one of the ten best fiction books of 2002, and it was on the '' Washington Post'' list of notable fiction for the same year. His novel ''Girl Factory'' was published in 2008 by

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followed by ''Erased,'' which was published in 2009 and ''Toward You'' published in 2010, also by

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Excerpt from ''Girl Factory''

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