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Nell Boeschenstein

Nell Boeschenstein

Nell Boeschenstein’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Oxford American, Ecotone, Granta, the Guardian, and elsewhere, and is anthologized in Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living (Simon & Schuster, 2017). She has received fellowships from the Ucross Foundation and the Edward F. Albee Foundation. She lives in Charlottesville

July/Aug 2018

Lost Colonies

By Nell Boeschenstein

From the white man to the fields of green And the homeland we’ve never seen.      —“Pocahontas,” Neil Young Driving Route 12, the road that runs the coastline of North Carolina’s […]