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- ↑ Vaziri, Aidin (January 9, 2011). "ON THE TOWN WITH . . . / Writers Julie Orringer and Ryan Harty". The San Francisco Chronicle.
- ↑ http://www.iowacenterforthebook.org/awards/recipients-uipress-short-fiction