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Winter 2012 • Vol. XXXIV No. 1 2011 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest |

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Anna Kovatcheva was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and holds an MFA in fiction writing from New York University. Her novella, The White Swallow, was selected by Aimee Bender as the winner of the 2014 Gold Line Press Fiction Chapbook Competition, and was published in 2015. Her stories have previously appeared or are forthcoming in Best American Nonrequired Reading, the Kenyon Review, and the Iowa Review. She lives in New York City, where she works as a graphic designer. In her off hours, Anna writes about Slavic folklore and teenage girls conspiring to murder.

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