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Sommer Schafer

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Deborah Levy, Rachel Cusk, Virginia Woolf, Alice LaPlante

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Sommer Schafer is senior editor of The Forge Literary Magazine and widely published, including a Distinguished Story in Best American Short Stories 2019. She lives in Northern California on Coast Miwok land with her family, a rescue dove, and a bearded dragon.

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