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Jan/Feb 2015 • Vol. XXXVII No. 1 • Fiction |

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By Noy Holland

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Noy Holland is the author of three collections of short fiction, Swim for the Little One First (Fiction Collective Two), What Begins with Bird (Fiction Collective Two), and The Spectacle of the Body (Knopf). She teaches in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst.

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