Eileen Drew

Eileen Drew is the author of The Ivory Crocodile. Her short story collection Blue Taxis was acclaimed as a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. Born in 1957 in Morocco as the child of an American diplomat, Drew grew up in Nigeria, Guinea, Ghana, Korea, and Washington D.C. In her early twenties, she joined the Peace Corps to return to Africa for a two year stint.

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