Miriam Karmel

<div><B>Miriam Karmel</B> has worked professionally as a newspaper reporter and magazine editor, and most recently as a freelance writer specializing in medicine and health. Her journalism has appeared in <I>AARP</I> magazine and <I>Minnesota Women's Press.</I> Her fiction has won numerous regional prizes, and her stories have been published in <I>Bellevue Literary Review,</I> <I>Minnesota Monthly,</I> and anthologized in Milkweed's <I>Fiction on a Stick.</I> She lives in Minneapolis, MN, and Sandisfield, MA. <I>Being Esther</I> is her first novel.<BR></div>