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Sept/Oct 2022 • Vol. XLIV No. 5 Fiction |

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A writer from West Virginia, Matthew Neill Null is author of the novel Honey from the Lion (Lookout Books, 2015) and the story collection Allegheny Front (Sarabande Books, 2016). He has received the O. Henry Award, the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, the Michener-Copernicus Fellowships, and the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in Literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Susquehanna University, Null is at work on a novel.

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