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Lorain Urban

Lorain Urban received Calyx Press’s 2016 Margarita Donnelly Prize for Prose Writing and has had her work published in Tahoma Literary Review and Midwest Review, among others. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

2017 Short Fiction Contest

Jan/Feb 2018

Canto

By Lorain Urban

2017 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest Runner-up   Carolyn had forgotten her goddamn phone and was now waiting for the goddamn elevator doors to close, so she could return to […]