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Spring 2023 • Vol. XLV No. 2 • Fiction |

The Snail

By Isabelle Burden

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Isabelle Burden is a writer and translator born and raised in New York City. She is a Mississippi Review Prize finalist, and her fiction has appeared in the 2022 issue of that magazine as well as in American Short Fiction and Hanging Loose. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and is fluent in German, a skill she utilizes in her work at the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations. Burden is currently crafting her first novel.

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