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Author: Melissa Wiley

Melissa Wiley won the 2019 Autumn House Press nonfiction contest for her book Skull Cathedral: A Vestigial Anatomy, which interweaves discussion of the body's vestigial organs with autobiographical fragments. She is also the author of the personal essay collection Antlers in Space and Other Common Phenomena.
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08/16/2021

Uninterrupted Blue

Afloat with and without you

by Melissa Wiley

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