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Volume 60, Issue 1
Contributors
CAIO FERNANDO ABREU was one of the most influential and original Brazilian writers of short fiction of the 1980s and ’90s, and the author of twelve story collections set in and published during the military dictatorship and at the height of the AIDS epidemic in Brazil. He has been awarded major literary prizes, including the prestigious Jabuti Prize for Fiction three times. He died of AIDS in Porto Alegre in 1996, at forty-seven.
DANA ALSAMSAM is the author of a chapbook, (in)habit, and her poems are published or forthcoming in Bone Bouquet, Gigantic Sequins, North American Review, Tinderbox Poetry, Fugue, The Boiler Journal, Salamander, BOOTH, and others. She is a Lambda Literary Fellow in the 2018 Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. A Chicago native, she is currently an MFA candidate and a teacher at Emerson College.
YASMIN AZAD was born and raised in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Since moving to the United States in her twenties she has lived in the Boston area, where she worked for many years as a mental health counselor. She is currently working on a memoir, Stay, Daughter, about growing up in a traditional Muslim community that had to confront the challenges of Westernization and modernity. “Food-Wrapping” is a
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