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Summer 2023 • Vol. XLV No. 3 • Selected Prose |

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By Meredith Talusan

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Meredith Talusan (she/they) has published a memoir, contributed to ten books, and published stories and essays in more than twenty publications. She received a Creative Capital Award and a MacDowell Fellowship for fiction in 2023, and has previously received awards from GLAAD, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association. For more about her work, visit mtalusan.com.

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