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May/June 2017 • Vol. XXXIX No. 3 • Nature's Nature |

City Swarm

By Meggan Kehrli and Paula Carter

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Meggan Kehrli runs a graphic design studio in Chicago. Her studio work includes a broad range of illustration, design, and printmaking projects. She has been involved in numerous book publications, including illustrations for Who Rescued Who?, which allowed her to visually capture the complex relationships between animals and their people.
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Paula Carter is the author of the flash memoir collection No Relation (Black Lawrence Press, 2017). Her essays have appeared in New York Times, Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Creative Nonfiction, and elsewhere. She teaches creative nonfiction at Northwestern University.

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Plasticity

By BK Fischer

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