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    National Book Award-nominated author of WE WERE THE UNIVERSE and BLACK LIGHT ✦ Co-creator of The Fountain ⛲ ✦ \ud83e\udec1 Unfucking my attention span one paragraph at a time \ud83c\udf0a I teach fiction in the MFA program at Pacific University

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