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Winter 2009 • Vol. XXXI No. 1 2008 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest |

I Met Loss the Other Day

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Cara Blue Adams is the recipient of the Kenyon Review Short Fiction Prize and the Missouri Review Peden Prize and was named one of Narrative’s “15 Below 30.” She has been awarded scholarships and fellowships to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the VCCA. An assistant professor of creative writing at Seton Hall University, she lives in Brooklyn.

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