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Summer 2024 • Vol. XLVI No. 3 • Extinction |

Or it’s strip malls for the foxes!

By Laura Villareal

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Laura Villareal is a poet and book critic. Her debut poetry collection, Girl’s Guide to Leaving (University of Wisconsin Press, 2022), was awarded the Texas Institute of Letters John A. Robert Johnson Award for First Book of Poetry and the Writers’ League of Texas Book Award for Poetry. Her writing has appeared in Shenandoah, Guernica, and AGNI, among others.

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