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Winter 2012 • Vol. XXXIV No. 1 Fiction |

In the Heart of the Heart of the Empire

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Erin Stalcup's ’s fiction is forthcoming in H_NGM_N, The Tusculum Review, a Swiss magazine of “art and fashion practices” called Novembre, and the anthology Phantom Manners: Contemporary Southern Gothic Fiction by Women, and her short stories have appeared in The Sun, [PANK], and elsewhere. Erin received her MFA from Warren Wilson College’s Program for Writers, and is currently a PhD student at the University of North Texas, where she is Assistant Fiction Editor at the American Literary Review. She recently finished her first collection, Gravity: Stories & a Novella, and started a novel, Ruination.

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