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Kari Nguyen lives in New England with her dog, husband, daughter, and twin boys. She is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, a two-time prize winner in the Glass Woman Prize, and her work has received recognition from Glimmer Train, The Binnacle, and New Hampshire Writers Magazine. Over twenty-five of her stories have been published online and in print, most recently in The Best of Boston Literary Magazine anthology. Kari is the former Nonfiction Editor for Stymie Magazine where she also directed Stymie’s “Why I Write” web series. Find her at karinguyen.wordpress.com or on Twitter @knguyenwrites.