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    Thank you foglifter!

    [Image description] I live in California's Central Valley. Growing up, it was common to have the Tule fog drift over the playground so that half the schoolyard would disappear in the ghostly haze. It...

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    California is on fire, and I cannot sleep

    It's two o'clock in the morning, and I cannot sleep. For the last hour and a half, I have been laying in bed staring at footage of the Northern California fires. A man is riding a bicycle through Santa...

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    It's Time for a Literary Revolution

    Can we be honest here? Lately, I've been frustrated with the publishing world. In graduate school, I used to travel to the annual AWP Writers Conference specifically to seek out panels about what it meant...

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    I Stand with Science

    [Image description] This past Sunday, I joined a small but dedicated crew of protestors in Fresno, California for the Earth Day March. We met in a small park then the couple of hundred people or so headed...