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Martina Botti

Martina Botti is an MFA candidate in fiction at New York University, where she’s a Writer in the Public Schools Fellow. Her fiction has appeared in Conjunctions and The Kenyon Review. She has a PhD in philosophy from Columbia University.

Luminous Gender Vessel

Fall 2023

The Similarity of Bodies

By Martina Botti

You tore up my note, your morning opened with Nora’s voice like a play that again you won’t be directing, and outside the light was blank and coloring the insistent […]