Naomi Benaron
Naomi Benaron won the 2010 Bellwether Prize for Fiction for her novel RUNNING THE RIFT, forthcoming from Algonquin books. She earned an MFA from Antioch University and an MS in earth sciences from Scripps Institute of Oceanography. She teaches online through UCLA Extension Writers' Program and the Afghan Women's Writing Project. An advocate for African refugees in her community, she has worked extensively with genocide survivor groups in Rwanda. She has won the G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction and the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. She is also an Ironman triathlete."
“Wherever God spends the day, He comes home to sleep in Rwanda.”
Naomi Benaron
“In Europe, his contacts apologized and said there was nothing they could do. They would keep trying, but no one was listening. Rwanda had no oil or strategic interest, no diamonds or gold.”
Naomi Benaron
“Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world.”
Naomi Benaron
“How much this book of life changes, he thought. And we are not the ones to write the pages.”
Naomi Benaron