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Fall 2023 • Vol. XLV No. 4 Luminous Gender Vessel |

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Sandra Lim is the author of The Curious Thing (W. W. Norton, 2021), The Wilderness (W. W. Norton, 2014), and Loveliest Grotesque (Kore Press, 2006). Her honors include the 2023 Jackson Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, and the Levis Reading Prize. A professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lim lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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