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Spring 2024 • Vol. XLVI No. 2 Literary Curiosities |

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Chengru He / 何琤茹 is the author of a hybrid memoir, I Would Vanish into Its Stronger Existence (Wet Cement Press, forthcoming) and a book of poetry, MON (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, forthcoming); and the translator of two books from the Chinese. Her writing, translation, and multimedia work appear or are forthcoming in Alchemy: A Journal of Translation, Ancient Exchanges, Defunct, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Poet Lore, Speculative Nonfiction, Tint Journal, Unlikely Stories Mark V, Watershed Review, and elsewhere. A former ESL teacher in Shanghai, she is currently a PhD student in poetry at the University of Utah. Find out more at chengruhe.net.

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