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Amanda Gunn

Amanda Gunn is a PhD student in English at Harvard University where she studies Black poetics and Black pleasure. Her work appears in, or is forthcoming from, Colorado Review, Poetry Northwest, The Baffler, Redivider, Southern Humanities Review, Thrush, and others. Photo Credit: Moon Duchin; Light Art: Floor van de Veld.