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Paul Riker

Paul Riker is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at Purdue University. He is the recipient of the National Society of Arts and Letters’ Holl Merit and Jones Merit Award, its top prize in literature for the state of Indiana. He was also a finalist for the 2020 Iowa Review Award in Fiction, as well as the 2021 Montana Prize in Fiction. His work has been featured or is forthcoming in Salt Hill, CutBank, the Nashville Review, Drunk Monkeys, Crack the Spine, and elsewhere. He lives in Lafayette, Indiana.

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