title: Blood Sisters: A Memoir
author:  Billie Travalini 
description: <b>Billie Travalinis</b> writing has been published in <i>Another Chicago Magazine, Revue Review, The Moth, Writers on Writing: The Art of the Short Story, The Journal of Caribbean Literatures,</i> and <i>Gargoyle,</i> among others. An earlier version of <i>Blood Sisters,</i> titled <i>Bloodsisters,</i> was a finalist for the Bakeless Literary Prize and won the Lewis Clark Discovery Prize. She edited <i>No Place Like Here: An Anthology of Southern Delaware Poetry and Prose,</i> 2012; <i>Teaching Troubled Youth: A Practical Pedagogical Approach,</i> 2008; guest edited <i>The Delaware Poetry Review,</i> 2014; and co-edited with Fleda Brown<i> The Mason-Dixon Line: An Anthology of Contemporary Delaware Writers,</i> 2008. She is the recipient of fellowships in poetry and fiction from the Delaware Division of the Arts, teaches at Wilmington University, and is a popular workshop leader and presenter. A lifelong advocate for the mentally ill and their families, Travalini lives in North Wilmington and is busy at work on <i>Independence Day,</i> a short story collection, and <i>Sunshine,</i> a sequel to <i>Blood Sisters.</i>
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