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Jan/Feb 2021 • Vol. XLIII No. 1 |

The Queen of Sheba

By Nay Saysourinho

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Nay Saysourinho is a writer based in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in the Funambulist and the Margins, and she has received fellowships from One Story, Kundiman, and the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. A Tin House Summer Workshop alumna and Mendocino Coast Writers' Workshop scholar, she is currently working on her first novel.

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