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Her nonfiction has appeared in salon, the atlantic, gq, maximum rocknroll, bitch magazine, and the american reader. Her short stories have appeared in tin house and zyzzyva, and her nonfiction in gq, the atlantic, smithsonian, the atavist, and was included in more about vanessa veselka. Zazen vanessa veselka, red lemonade 2011, 256 pages. Todays guest is portland writer and debut novelist vanessa veselka.
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