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Anthony Tognazzini

Anthony Tognazzini’s recent fiction has appeared in Electric Literature, StoryQuarterly, Guernica, and TriQuarterly, among other journals, as well as on NPR’s Selected Shorts. His collection of short fiction and hybrid works, I Carry a Hammer in My Pocket for Occasions Such As These (2007), is available from BOA Editions. Tognazzini has received fellowships from Yaddo, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and he was the winner of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. He currently lives in Ohio, where he teaches in Kent State University’s undergraduate and Northeast Ohio MFA creative writing programs.

Extinction

Summer 2024

Break the Line

By Anthony Tognazzini

The Kenyon Review · “Break The Line” by Anthony Tognazzini Keep to the right, Riel Fares, and take your place in line. Do not break the line. Do not befriend […]