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Winter 2024 • Vol. XLVI No. 1 Fiction |

Entropy

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Melissa Yancy’s story collection, Dog Years (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016), was winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and a California Book Award and was longlisted for the Story Prize. Her short fiction has appeared in One Story, ZYZZYVA, Prairie Schooner, The Missouri Review, and many other journals. The recipient of an NEA fellowship, Yancy works and lives in Los Angeles.

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