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Nomi Eve | |
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| Born | March 13, 1968 |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Fiction |
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In August 2014, her second novel "Henna House" was published by Scribners.
Eve is currently the Director of the Creative Writing MFA program at Drexel University. [1]
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