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S.M. Mack is a Clarion 2012 grad and holds an MFA in popular fiction from USM Stonecoast as well as first place for the 2017 Katherine Patterson Prize for Young Adult Writing. Her prize-winning story, “The Carrying Beam,” was published in the VCFA’s Journal for the Arts, Hunger Mountain. Other stories have been published in Fireside Fiction and Vine Leaves Literary Journal’s “Best of 2015” anthology, as well as the Clarion class of 2012’s seven Rainbow Anthologies. She lives in southern California and can be found on Bsky at @whatsmacksaid.bsky.social and Instagram at @what_smacksaid.

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