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

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By Carter Sickels

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Carter Sickels is the author of the novels The Prettiest Star (Hub City Press, 2021) and The Evening Hour (Bloomsbury USA, 2012). His writing appears in various outlets, including The Atlantic, Oxford American, Poets & Writers, BuzzFeed, Guernica, and Joyland. Sickels is an assistant professor of creative writing at North Carolina State University.

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