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Summer Block
Los Angeles, California, USA
Member since: May, 2008
Last update : 05/04/2008
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Summer Block has published essays, short fiction, and poetry in a variety of publications, including McSweeneys, Small Spiral Notebook, Tarpaulin Sky, San Francisco Chronicle, ALARM, Identity Theory, January Magazine, Rain Taxi, Monkeybicycle, Stirring, and DIAGRAM. She is also founder of the comedy magazine, The Foghorn.

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Summer Block has published essays, short fiction, and poetry in a variety of publications, including McSweeneys, Small Spiral Notebook, Tarpaulin Sky, San Francisco Chronicle, ALARM, Identity Theory, January Magazine, Rain Taxi, Monkeybicycle, Stirring, and DIAGRAM.

Undergraduate College/University	University of Chicago, class of 11
Undergraduate Area of Study	English; Medieval Studies

I am working on a novel now about four American expatriates living in Shanghai, China.