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Laura Kolbe

Laura Kolbe studies medicine at the University of Virginia. Her poetry has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, the Awl, Blackbird, Shenandoah, Smartish Pace, and elsewhere. Her fiction has appeared in the Literary Review, and her criticism has appeared in the Bookforum, Idiom, the New Yorker, and Open Letters Monthly.