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    Jessica Bryant Klagmann

    Originally from New Hampshire, Jessica Bryant Klagmann is the daughter of an herbalist and a beekeeper. She received an MFA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where she was also fortunate enough to acquire a haunted truck, an adventurous husband, and a too-adventurous dog. Her stories and essays have appeared in Written River: A Journal of Eco-Poetics, Hippocampus Magazine, Pithead Chapel, and elsewhere. One of her stories placed second in the 2013 Sixfold Fiction Contest.

    Jessica Bryant Klagmann

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    Inside, caribou burgers sizzled on an open grill, but I didn’t eat meat then. Alaska Amber was on tap, which was good because I hadn’t learned I liked whiskey yet. It was someone’s birthday. And late spring. Nearing the days that wouldn’t end, when the difference between yesterday and tomorrow would become a blurry, pink line.