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Dickson Lam

Dickson Lam earned MFA degrees from the University of Houston and Rutgers-Newark. His work appears in The Normal School, Hyphen, PANK, The Good Men Project, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from VONA and the Millay Colony for the Arts.


Fall 2015

What’s in a Name?

By Dickson Lam

OUT The guys in my housing project gave me my first graffiti tag: OUT. I thought it was a random name, but it probably referred to how often I’d strike […]