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July/Aug 2022 • Vol. XLIV No. 4 |

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By Laura Picklesimer

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Laura Picklesimer’s debut novel, Kill for Love, was the winner of Launch Pad’s 2021 Prose Competition and of the 2020 Book Pipeline: Unpublished Contest. She was the grand prize winner of Enizagam Journal’s 2018 Fiction Contest, received third place in the 2021 Rougarou Fabulism & Speculative Fiction Contest, and was a finalist for the 2018 Speculative Literature Foundation Diverse Worlds Grant. Laura teaches English at Chaffey College, in Rancho Cucamonga, California. She is currently at work on a speculative fiction collection focused on climate change and artificial intelligence.

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