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Expression. Hopkins Review, vol. 10, no. 1.
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You Are Happy? The New Yorker, April 17.
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UPTON, LEE
Portrait of the Artist’s Son. Idaho Review, no. 16.
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Fran’s Friend Has Cancer. Ploughshares, vol. 43, no. 1.
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Roxane Gay, guest editor, is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Bad Feminist and Hunger, which received the NBCC Members’ Choice Award; the novel An Untamed State, a finalist for the Dayton Peace Prize; and the short story collections Difficult Women and Ayiti. She is also the editor of the New York Times best-selling Not That Bad. A contributing opinion writer to the New York Times, she has also written for Time, McSweeney’s, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Los Angeles Times, and The Nation, among others. She is the author of the World of Wakanda series for Marvel.
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