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July/Aug 2021 • Vol. XLIII No. 4 |

An Excerpt from “Visitation”

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Suzie Eckl’s work is published or forthcoming in the Arkansas International, where she won the 2020 Emerging Writer’s Prize; Nimrod International Journal, where she won the 2020 Francine Ringold Award for Emerging Writers in Poetry; and Bat City Review, where she placed runnerup in the 2019 Short Prose Contest. She received her MFA in creative writing at the University of Virginia and her BA in English at Davidson College as a Patricia Cornwell Creative Writing Scholar. Currently, she is working on a collection of stories set in the American West.

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