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Georgina Parfitt
Andrews Forest Writing Resident (2018)
Georgina Parfitt is a fiction writer and teacher. She was born and raised in Norfolk, England, and moved to the U.S. at 18. She holds a BA in English from Harvard University and an MFA from Boston University. Georgina thinks of fiction as an ecological record capable of conveying natural wisdom through patient observation and care. Her work often places an individual animal within its history, environment, and unique community. She has researched and written about elephants in Sumatra, Indonesia, and whales off the eastern coast of Scotland. Her stories can be found in the Dublin Review, the Common, Ambit and elsewhere.