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Katherine James has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University where she received the Felipe P. De Alba Fellowship and taught undergraduate fiction. She also writes narrative non-fiction as well as poetry, and has work published in various journals and anthologies. One of her short stories was recently a finalist for a Narrative Spring Prize.

Can You See Anything Now? is her debut novel, and was a semi-finalist for the Doris Bakwin Prize. She also has a memoir, Notes On Orion about heroin in the suburbs of Philadelphia, that follows one particular year when it affected her family. It will be released in the spring of 2018.

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God Likes Me More Than You

 

THE CHEEKY TITLE I’VE GIVEN THIS little ditty of an essay was likely born from some childhood memory when snotty me was tormenting my little brother in hopes of getting a tortured apology or finally admitting to himself and me that I was his superior in all things excluding BMX bikes which I didn’t care about anyway. In short; ‘Mom likes me more than you anyway so you should do whatever I want.

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