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Summer 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 3 Nonfiction |

Good Boy (a trans lyric)

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Tori McCandless is a poet and educator living in Berkeley. They are completing a PhD at the University of California, Davis, where their research explores how feminist ecopoetics utilizes and transcribes the body in order to index ever-widening definitions of environmental catastrophe in the mid-twentieth century. Their work is forthcoming from Public Books and can be found in ASAP/Journal, Annulet, Denver Quarterly, Wildness, Bruiser, and more.

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