Gina Willner-Pardo

Gina Willner-Pardo has written short stories published in Berkeley Fiction Review, The South Carolina Review, Bluestem, Pleiades, Cog MagazineFive on the Fifth, White Wall ReviewMad River Review, Origins Journal, Streetlight Magazine, Summerset Review, and Whetstone, which awarded her story “Accident” the John Patrick McGrath Memorial Award. She has also written seventeen books for children, all published by Clarion or Albert Whitman. Gina’s book Figuring Out Frances won the Josette Frank Award, presented by the Bank Street College of Education, to honor a book of “outstanding literary merit in which children or young people deal in a positive and realistic way with difficulties in their world and grow emotionally and morally.” 

Gina has a BA in English from Bryn Mawr College and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. She has studied with James Frey.

 

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