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Summer 2010 • Vol. XXXII No. 3 Fiction |

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Bonnie Nadzam has published fiction and essays in many journals and magazines, including Granta, Harper’s Magazine, Orion Magazine, The Iowa Review, Epoch, Kenyon Review, and many others. Her first novel, Lamb, was recipient of the Center for Fiction’s first novel award in 2011, was longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, has been translated into several languages and made into an award-winning independent film (Orchard 2016). She is co-author of Love in the Anthropocene with Environmental Ethicist Dale Jamieson (O/R Books 2015). Her second novel, Lions, was published by Grove Press in 2016.

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