Avra Wing is the author of the novel Angie, I Says, a New York Times notable book, which was made into the feature film Angie starring Geena Davis and James Gandolfini. Her online memoir, Doorway on the Mountain: A Rehabilitation Journey, recounts her recovery from a devastating accident that left her permanently disabled. Avra’s newly-published poetry collection, Recurring Dream, is the winner of the 2011 Pecan Grove Press National Poetry Chapbook competition. She has published poems in a number of magazines, including Hanging Loose, Michigan Quarterly Review, Apple Valley Review and New Madrid. Avra is a workshop leader for the New York Writers Coalition, and an adjunct professor of literature at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, New York, where she lives.
