Diane Lefer
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My nonfiction tends to mix the personal and the political. Here are some examples available online:
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Friends weren't surprised I went to Senegal, but didn't understand what I was doing at the 
Air Ground Combat Center Marine training base. You can read about it, as published in Número Cinq, here.

In October 2013 I was in Northern Ireland with ImaginAction. My essay about the Ballymurphy Massacre Families appears in the Winter 2014 issue of New Madrid, and here's 
"Provocations" -- a more personal account of my time there and our work in the February 2014 issue of Numero Cinq.

And thank you, Connotation Press. Here's my personal essay, Without Exoneration, about prisoners, remorse, and forgiveness. It's a followup to an earlier piece about the juvenile in/justice system, Facing Life. 

My interview (much abridged) with Rev. James Lawson, the architect of the civil rights movement, appears in the 10th anniversary issue of Believer magazine (March/April 2013) and they've excerpted it on their website. Summer/Fall 2014,  the Fellowship of Reconciliation published a different (still abridged) version and you can read it here. 

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