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Mar/Apr 2022 • Vol. XLIV No. 2 |

What Can’t Be Grown Must Be Mined

By Willa C. Richards

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Willa C. Richards is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote fellow. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, and she is a recipient of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Richards is the author of the novel The Comfort of Monsters (HarperCollins, 2021).

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