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Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self

Danielle Evans (born Danielle Valore Evans) is an American fiction writer. In 2011, she was honored by the National Book Foundation as one of its "5 Under 35" fiction writers. Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, her first short story collection, won the 2011 PEN/Robert Bingham Prize. The collection's title echoes a line from "The Bridge Poem," from Kate Rushin's collection The Black Back-Ups (Firebrand Books, 1993). Reviewing the book in The New York Times, Lydia Peelle observed that the stories "evoke the thrill of an all-night conversation with your hip, frank, funny college roommate."

Evans's work was anthologized in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Best American Short Stories collections in 2008 and 2010. Her stories have also appeared in The Paris Review and A Public Space. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature at American University, and in 2014 began teaching in the MFA program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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