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The American Fiction Award

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Sponsoring Organization: American Book Fest
Award Level: Winner | Award Year: 2022
Award Category: Short Story
Winner(s):  A Longing for Impossible Things, by David Borofka

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David Borofka
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David Borofka

David Borofka taught at Reedley College for more than thirty-five years before retiring in 2019. He now teaches in the Writers' Program at UCLA Extension. The author of Hints of His Mortality, A Longing for Impossible Things, and The Island, his work has appeared in Southern Review, Massachusetts Review, Shenandoah, Image, Glimmer Train, and elsewhere.

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