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Rowan Beaird

Rowan Beaird

Rowan Beaird‘s work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Literary Review, Puerto del Sol, and Little Fiction, among others. She is the recipient of Ploughshares’ 2017 Emerging Writer’s Contest for Fiction, and her stories have been nominated for a Pushcart. She received her BA from Kenyon College, where she worked as an associate at the Kenyon Review. You can read more about her work at rowanbeaird.com.

July/Aug 2018

Zugunruhe

By Rowan Beaird

I. Geese have landed on the neighbors’ lawn. Some pick at the grass, others rest their heads on their breasts. From her window they look alien, with eyes the same […]