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Leah Myers is a member of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe of the Pacific Northwest. She received an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of New Orleans, where she won the Samuel Mockbee Award for Nonfiction two years in a row. She now lives in Alabama, with roots in Georgia, Arizona, and Washington. Her work has previously appeared in, Fugue Journal, Craft Literary Magazine, High Shelf Press, and elsewhere. Her upcoming memoir, THINNING BLOOD, will be published by W.W. Norton.