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Abby Walthausen

Abby Walthausen’s writing has appeared in Public Domain Review, Paris Review Daily, the Atlantic, Zocalo Public Square, Atlas Obscura, Common-place, Mutha, Extra Crispy, LARB, and LitHub. Fictional work has been published by Gigantic, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, the Made in LA anthology, and is forthcoming in Sycamore Review and Santa Monica Review. She lives in Echo Park, Los Angeles where she guides a tour about twentieth-century printmaker Paul Landacre, and is at work on a novel, St. Cyr.