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Young Adult Fiction Student Publishes Second Novel

mfa young adult fiction student Gwen Holt

MFA young adult fiction student Gwen Holt MFA Young Adult Fiction student, Gwen Holt, has published her newest novel, Perilous Journey of the Much-too-Spontaneous Girl, from Month9Books. Gwen, who publishes YA novels under the pseudonym of Leigh Statham, published The Perilous Journey of the Not-So-Innocuous Girl in 2015 and was named the winner of the 2016 Southeast Review Nonfiction Prize.

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