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CONTRIBUTORS

KENDRA ALLEN is the author of the essay collection When You Learn the Alphabet. A book of poems, The Collection Plate, will be published by Ecco this summer.

SHERI BENNING’s fourth collection of poetry, Field Requiem, is forthcoming from Carcanet.

ROSANNA BRUNO is a visual artist based in New York. Her first book, The Slanted Life of Emily Dickinson, was published in 2017.

PEYTON BURGESS is the author of The Fry Pans Aren’t Sufficing and a graduate of New York University’s M.F.A. program in creative writing.

was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living.

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