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• María Alejandra Barrios, excerpt from A Cilantro Wedding Bouquet
• Claire Lobenfeld, excerpt from Fast Songs for Fast Girls
• Cameron Price, excerpt from We Are Everything at Once
Ingrid Rojas Contreras is the author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday, 2018) a silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and a New York Times editor's choice. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Cut, The Believer, and elsewhere. A new work of nonfiction, a family memoir about her grandfather, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds, is coming from Doubleday in 2022.
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