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Ananda Lima

Ananda Lima’s work has appeared in Poets.org, American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Common, Rattle, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and elsewhere. Her poetry chapbook Translation (Paper Nautilus, 2019) won the 2018 Vella Chapbook Contest. She has an MA in linguistics (UCLA) and will graduate with an MFA in fiction (Rutgers University–Newark) in the spring of 2019.

Sept/Oct 2019

Antropófaga

By Ananda Lima

She devoured tiny Americans that came out of the vending machine. They slid out inside thin metallic plastic packages that almost opened themselves when punctured. Emerging from their wrapping with […]