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Jason Prokowiew

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Jason Prokowiew received the PEN America/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History for War Boys, his braided memoir about his Russian father's adoption by Nazis during World War II and the trauma he carried into parenthood. He earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from George Mason University. His writing has appeared in The North American Review, The Guardian, The Hooghly Review, Salon, WBUR's Cognoscenti, and on WORLD Channel's Stories from the Stage. He's received support from Bread Loaf, Tin House, Ragdale, and the Mass Cultural Council. He runs his own law office dedicated to disability advocacy and lives on a lake in Massachusetts with his husband Dave and their greyhound Champ.

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