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Lauri Anderson Alford's fiction has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Cincinnati Review, The Greensboro Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Passages North, Bellingham Review, and elsewhere. Her recent awards include The Tobias Wolff Award in Fiction, The Robert Watson Literary Prize, and a Tennessee Williams scholarship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She is also the Round Six winner of NPR's Three-Minute Fiction Contest. Find her online at www.laurianderson.com.

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