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J.L. Wall

J.L. Wall’s essays, poetry, and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in America, First Thoughts, Jewish Fiction.Net, Modern Age, Ordinary Times, Broadkill Review, Hollins Critic, Modernism/modernity, American Literature, and the website of Baseball Prospectus. He earned a PhD in English and Judaic Studies from the University of Michigan and is currently at work on a book of scholarship, Covenantal Poetics: Jewish, Irish, and African American Modernisms Beyond the Lyric.