{"product_id":"i-come-from-immigrants","title":"I Come from Immigrants","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBorn a child of Hungarian immigrants, \u003cstrong\u003eMargaret Duda\u003c\/strong\u003e grew up bi-lingual and bi-cultural. She could not speak English until she had to go to kindergarten, but then loved reading and had a poem in the \u003cem\u003eNational Anthology of High School Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e at 15 and sold her first short story to a national magazine at 17. In her senior year, she wrote a weekly column for the local newspaper on school news.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShe graduated from the University of Delaware, where she majored in English Literature and minored in Philosophy, winning both the Mary Healey Ford Award and the Penwoman’s Bowl award for her short fiction. She was also chosen \u003cem\u003eMademoiselle\u003c\/em\u003e’s college representative from the University of Delaware for her articles. During summer vacations, Margaret worked as a journalist for the \u003cem\u003eDelaware State News\u003c\/em\u003e and interviewed people such as John F. Kennedy when he ran for President.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter graduation from college, marriage, and four children, she wrote short stories and articles for literary magazines such as \u003cem\u003eThe Kansas Quarterly, The University Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The South Carolina Review, The Green River Review, Fine Arts Discovery,\u003c\/em\u003e and others. One of her stories made the Distinctive list of \u003cem\u003eBest American Short Stories.\u003c\/em\u003e Margaret also published over a hundred nonfiction articles and five books, had a play produced in Michigan, and since Covid, has had poems in the \u003cem\u003eLothlorien Poetry Journal, The Muddy River Review, Verse-Virtual, Writing in a Woman’s Voice, Silver Birch Press, Red Eft Review,\u003c\/em\u003e and six anthologies here and abroad.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShe also took travel photos for the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e for ten years, traveling to forty countries and thirty-eight states, and is on the fifth and final draft of a novel about an immigrant family set in a steel mill town in the Mon Valley south of Pittsburgh, for which she won the Lucretia V. Simmons writing grant from the AAUW. Margaret was listed in an anthology of \u003cem\u003eWho’s Who in Emerging Writers in 2021\u003c\/em\u003e and nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback: 122 pages\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (June 26, 2023)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAwards:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"On the Wall Forever\" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48176454336670,"sku":"eij1787286824869","price":14.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6345\/4366\/files\/i-come-from-immigrants_1.jpg?v=1787286830","url":"https:\/\/urbanwearstore.shop\/products\/i-come-from-immigrants","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}