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Summer 2023 • Vol. XLV No. 3 Nonfiction |

Our Lady of the Stairs

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Susannah Nevison is the author of Teratology (Persea Books, 2015) and Lethal Theater (Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, 2019). With Molly McCully Brown, she is coauthor of In the Field Between Us (Persea Books, 2020). She has received the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize from Persea Books and The Journal Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize from OSU/The Journal, among other awards and fellowships. Her essays and poems have appeared in Tin House, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. Currently she teaches at Sweet Briar College, where she is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing.

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