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Current Issue • Vol. XLVIII No. 1 • Poetry |

Kill Site: A Fugue

By Ellen Rogers

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Ellen Rogers holds an MFA in creative writing from Western Washington University and is a 2025–26 Loft Mentor Series fellow. Her work appears in AGNI, Ecotone, Painted Bride Quarterly, and other journals. Formerly a poetry editor for The Hopper and assistant managing editor of Bellingham Review, Rogers now works in environmental communications.

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