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Winter 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 1 Nonfiction |

That Kind of Girl

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Elaine van der Geld’s writing appears regularly in both online and print publications, including The Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, the Ploughshares blog, Grain, The Normal School, Contemporary Verse II, and others. She has received notable mentions in The Best American Essays and Best Canadian Poetry, and is the recipient of a Canada Council for the Arts grant. She holds an MA in English and an MFA, both from the University of British Columbia.

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