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Summer 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 3 • Nonfiction |

Sonoran Desert Toad

By Marin Sardy

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Marin Sardy is the author of the memoir The Edge of Every Day (Pantheon, 2019) and cocreator of the Substack Psychic Telephone (marinsardy.substack.com). Sardy’s essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Guernica, and many other journals, as well as in two award-winning books of photography. She is the winner of the 2025 Mathiasen Prose Award, and her work has been nominated for both Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes, as well as twice listed as Notable in The Best American Essays (2015 and 2017). Sardy teaches memoir and personal essay writing for Authors Publish and Writing Workshops.

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