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Winter 2023 • Vol. XLV No. 1 Fiction |

This Story of Migration Exists in Two Languages, and Why Shouldn’t It?

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Karolina Letunova grew up in Western Siberia. She has an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. Her work appears or is forthcoming in AGNI, The Offing, and Longleaf Review, among others, and was a 2022 finalist for the Chautauqua Janus Prize. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and Monson Arts. She’s at work on a novel.

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