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Fall 2023 • Vol. XLV No. 4 • Luminous Gender Vessel |

Trans People of the Past

By Michael M. Weinstein

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Michael M. Weinstein’s poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Boston Review, The Iowa Review, Conjunctions, The LARB Quarterly, Narrative Magazine, The Adroit Journal, Poets.org, and elsewhere. Prior to receiving his MFA at the University of Michigan, Weinstein earned a PhD in English Literature at Harvard and served as a Fulbright scholar in Siberia. He teaches at Earlham College, in Indiana.

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