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Nov/Dec 2019 • Vol. XLI No. 6 Nonfiction |

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So Mayer is the author of Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema (IB Tauris, 2015) and of several collections of poetry, most recently jacked a kaddish (Litmus Publishing, 2018), kaolin (Lark Books, 2015), and (O) (Arc, 2015). They are a contributor to Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (edited by Roxane Gay, HarperCollins, 2018) and Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry (editors Sarah Shin and Rebecca Támas, Ignota, 2018).

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