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Summer 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 3 Forough Farrokhzad Folio |

A School of Fish Disturbed

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Torsa Ghosal is author of a book of literary criticism, Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative (The Ohio State University Press, 2021), and an experimental novella, Open Couplets (Yoda Press, 2017). She has won fiction contests held by Berkeley Fiction Review and The Brooklyn Review, and her essays and translation can be found in The Massachusetts Review, Literary Hub, Bustle, LA Review of Books, and elsewhere. A writer and professor of English based in California, Ghosal grew up in Bengal, India. You can follow her on X @TorsaG and on Instagram @torsa_ghosal.

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