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

From the Fort Behind the Conifers

By Eliza Gilbert

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Eliza Gilbert is an undergraduate at Vassar College. Her poetry can be found or is forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, The Iowa Review, The Adroit Journal, Frontier Poetry, and others. She received the 2023 Iowa Review Award for Poetry as well as LitMag’s Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction (2023). She was born and raised in New York City.

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