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By Caitlin ThomsonMost people assume that if you only know one language, that language was easy to learn. English and I still battle.
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By Rita Maria MartinezIt’s about mouth breathers, gum chewers, pen clickers, foot tappers
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By Allison Stalberg SiebensWe spoke with Rafael Frumkin, author of Confidence, about disability rep, satire, and the relationship between “falling in love and being scammed.”
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By Allison Stalberg SiebensRafael Frumkin, author of Confidence and graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Medill School of Journalism, lives in Carbondale, IL, where he teaches fiction and nonfiction writing at Southern Illinois University. His first novel, The Comedown (2018), is being adapted for television by Freddie Highmore and Regina King at Starz.
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By Geneviève LapriseShe needs me to be strong. My heart aches for her pain, the pain I have unknowingly given her.
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By Melody DoverYears of tedious fighting with Pain I now tread the boundaries between
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By Allison Stalberg SiebensCaiti Quatmann (she/her) is a disabled poet and Editor-in-Chief for HNDL Mag. We spoke with her about how she started writing, her favorite poems in the collection, and what she’s working on now.
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By Garret StirlandHer supervisor is impressed with her ability, but she can only think of Don. She feels too much, they tell her. It’s a strength and a curse. Now comes the worst part of her job.
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By Karlen Lambert“Our love laid thick and bitter on my tongue/I choked it down as not to spit/I laughed so not to lunge.”
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By Allison Stalberg SiebensAaron H. Aceves is the bisexual, Mexican-American author of This Is Why They Hate Us, which was published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. We spoke with him about intersectional identity, writing books for teens, and what he’s working on now.