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I Molt with You

By Emily Mathis

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Emily Mathis is a writer and dancer in Brooklyn. She was the 2024 nonfiction winner of Sonora Review’s erotic-themed contest and has received accolades from Miami Book Fair’s Emerging Writers’ Fellowship, the Hudson Prize (Black Lawrence Press), and the Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize (Seneca Review Books). She is seeking to publish her debut essay collection and is working on a novel. Find her at emilymathiswriting.com and on Instagram at @emily_a_mathis.

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