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dm armstrong

dm armstrong is the author of two story collections—Going Anywhere and Reiterations—and a novella, Missives from the Green Campaign, winner of Omnidawn’s Fabulist Fiction Prize. Their work appears in Mississippi Review, North American Review, New Ohio Review, the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Narrative, among others. They have been a Black Mountain Institute PhD Fiction Fellow at UNLV, an editor of Witness Magazine, and they currently teach creative writing at University of the Incarnate Word–San Antonio. More at dmarmstrongauthor.com.

Nov/Dec 2021

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By dm armstrong

2021 Kenyon Review Short Nonfiction Contest Runner-up Fall semester of 2018, I taught a student named K*** who suffered from an autoimmune disease that had been attacking her liver. For […]