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Life with horses, on the racetrack, is an alternate reality; a culture with its own dreams, its own sorrows, its own glory.
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Background
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Georgie Ziff is an adjunct lecturer at California State University East Bay and Merritt College where she teaches writing. While in the thoroughbred horse racing industry, she worked both as a rider and racing official. Ms. Ziff currently resides in Berkeley, California with her two children and two cats.
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Birth Place
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Lexington, MA
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Accomplishments
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Her fiction work has earned her an honorable mention in the 2005 Robert Williams fiction contest, first place in the CSUEB essay contest and a finalist in the Thoroughbred Times Fiction contest of 2006.
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Additional Information
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I am currently working on a memoir that covers a childhood with migrant academics, family disruption, and life on the race track backstretch.
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