Monica Drake

Monica Drake (born 1967 in Lansing, Michigan) is an American fiction writer known for her novel, Clown Girl. She is a graduate of the University of Arizona's MFA program in creative writing. Clown Girl was named best book of 2007 by Chuck Palahniuk in the December 2007 issue of Playboy Magazine^{[citation needed]} and was a finalist for the 2007 Ken Kesey Award for the Novel through the Oregon Book Awards. The book also won the Eric Hoffer Award for best Micro Press title and the Ippy Award for Story Teller of the Year from the Independent Publisher Book Awards. She tries to write every day, while fitting in time for her free time.

She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, novelist Kassten Alonso, and daughter.

Her novel Clown Girl is about a girl that has to find her true self. This book was released in February 2007.

References

• Eric Hoffer Awards
• [1]
• Entertainment Weekly
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• Wilamette Week
• Oregon Book Awards

External links

• Author’s Homepage
• [2]

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