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News about 2002-03 graduates can be found at Recent Graduates.
Carolyn Alessio's first book, LAS VOCES DE ESPERANZA/THE VOICES OF HOPE, a bilingual anthology of poems, stories, and drawings by the children of a Guatemalan squatter settlement, was published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2003. Her short story, "Casualidades," received a 2003 Pushcart Prize. She has also been awarded a prose fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council, and a fiction award from Story Magazine. In 1997 she was awarded a two-year creative writing fellowship from Emory University. In addition to writing fiction and poetry, Carolyn is a frequent book reviewer for the Chicago Tribune. In June 1998 she was appointed Deputy Editor of the Books section of the Chicago Tribune. She has fiction in Antioch Review, Many Mountains Moving, Chicago Review, Quarterly West, TriQuarterly, Boulevard, and the anthology THE HABIT OF ART: BEST STORIES FROM THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY FICTION WORKSHOP (Indiana University Press).
Talvikki Ansel's second book, JETTY AND OTHER POEMS, is a 2003 release by Zoo Press in Lincoln, Nebraska. She won the 2001 Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, sponsored by Shenendoah and Washington and Lee University. Her poem "Alycone" was selected for inclusion in THE PUSHCART PRIZE XXVI: BEST OF THE SMALL PRESSES (Fall 2001); her poem originally appeared in Indiana Review, Fall 2000. Talvikki won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for her collection, MY SHINING ARCHIPELAGO, which was published by Yale University Press in 1997. Her manuscript was chosen by James Dickey from nearly 700 entries. Her poems have appeared in a number of magazines, including The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review, Poetry East, Shenandoah, Zyzzyva, Meridian, and several anthologies; her work is also featured on Web del Sol. Talvikki was also a recipient of a Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing from Stanford University and a Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship.
Barbara Bean's first collection of short stories, DREAM HOUSE, was published by the Center for Literary Publishing at the University Press of Colorado. Her fiction has appeared in North American Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Laurel Review, Colorado Review, The Crescent Review, and elsewhere, as well as the anthology THE HABIT OF ART: BEST STORIES FROM THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY FICTION WORKSHOP (Indiana University Press). Barbara is an associate professor at DePauw University, where she teaches courses in creative writing, literature, and women's studies, is the advisor to the campus literary magazine, The Midwestern Review, and where she currently holds the Peck Chair in Creative Writing.
James Brock's first book of poetry, THE SUNSHINE MINE DISASTER (University of Idaho Press, 1995), is now in its second printing. His poetry has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Tennessee Arts Commission, the Alex Haley Foundation, and the Idaho Commission for the Arts. His second volume of poetry, NEARLY FLORIDA, was the winner of the 2000 Anhinga Prize and published by Anhinga Press in September 2000. His poems have recently appeared in Seattle Review, Mangrove, Southern Ocean Review, Carolina Quarterly, College English, Caffeine Destiny, Kimera, Chili Verde Review, Santa Barbara Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Red Rock Review. He directs the Writing Program at Florida Gulf Coast in Fort Myers. More about him can be found at Jim Brock, Florida Gulf Coast University.
D. Winston Brown's short fiction has appeared in Yemassee and Amaryllis and republished in the anthologies NEW STORIES FROM THE SOUTH: THE YEAR'S BEST, 2000 (Algonquin Books), edited by Shannon Ravenel, and THE HABIT OF ART: BEST STORIES FROM THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY FICTION WORKSHOP (Indiana University Press). Daryl is also the author of the novel, BLUE SUGAR. which was a finalist in the 2002 Bakeless Literary Prize competition. He is currently a Visiting Professor of English and creative writing at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, and the recipient of the Marion Anderson/Alvin Ailey Award for the Creative Arts as well as the Russell MacDonald Creative Writing Award in Fiction. Daryl has also served as prose editor of Calliope at West Virginia University, where he received an M.A., and as a fiction editor of Indiana Review.
Richard Cecil's third book of poetry, IN SEARCH OF THE GREAT DEAD, was published in the spring of 1999 by Southern Illinois University Press. He is the author of two previous collections of poems, EINSTEIN'S BRAIN (University of Utah Press, 1986) and ALCATRAZ (Purdue University Press, 1992), winner of the Verna Emery Poetry Competition. Cecil's poems have appeared recently in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Georgia Review, New England Review, Crazyhorse, Illinois Review, Crab Orchard Review, Third Coast, and Southern Poetry Review. He teaches in the English department and the honors division of Indiana University; see his home page at Richard Cecil, Indiana University for more information about him and his work.
Dave Coverly is the creator the cartoon panel "Speed Bump," which appears in over 200 newspapers internationally, including the Washington Post, Toronto Globe & Mail, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, San Francisco Examiner, Indianapolis Star, Irish Times (Dublin), Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Observer (London), and Las Vegas Sun. His first book, SPEED BUMP: A COLLECTION OF CARTOON SKIDMARKS, was published in 2000 by Andrews McMeel Publishing. Dave received the prestigious Reuben Award for Best Newspaper Panel in 1995; he received a second Reuben Award in 1999 for his series of Speed Bump greeting cards, carried by American Greetings. Dave's work has also appeared in Esquire, Saturday Evening Post, The New York Times, and USA Today, among other magazines.
Melanie Culbertson's short stories have appeared in Puerto del Sol, American Literary Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, American Voice, Monocacy Valley Review, and The Louisville Review, and been reprinted on Web del Sol; she also has fiction forthcoming in Southern Indiana Review. Her fiction has also received the Associated Writing Programs Intro Journals Award in Fiction and been named a finalist for both the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers and the American Literary Review Short Fiction Contest. In 2003 she received a fellowship for the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia. Melanie is a currently an assistant professor of English and creative writing at the University of Evansville.
Tenaya Darlington's first novel, MAYBE BABY, was published by Little, Brown in fall 2004. Her first collection of poetry, MADAME DELUXE (Coffee House Press, 2000), was a selection in the 2000 National Poetry Series and the winner of the 2001 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in Poetry. Her stories and poems have appeared in several magazines including Kenyon Review, The Hawai'i Review, Mid-American Review, Avatar, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Madison Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Sonora Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Southern Poetry Review, and the anthologies SCRIBNER'S BEST OF THE FICTION WORKSHOPS 1998, ISN'T IT ROMANTIC? 100 LOVE POEMS BY YOUNGER AMERICAN POETS (Verse Press), and the anthology THE HABIT OF ART: BEST STORIES FROM THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY FICTION WORKSHOP (Indiana University Press). Tenaya is also the author of the column, "On the Loose," which appears in the alternative weekly, Isthmus, in Madison, Wisconsin. In Fall 2005 she begins an assistant professor position at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia.
Budi Darma is one of Indonesia's most distinguished writers of fiction. His most recent book is the collection of short stories, KRITIKUS ADINAN, published in 2002. He also published two books in 1996: WARISAN (a translation of the African novel, THE LEGACY), and a new novel titled MRS. TALIS, which was written in part while he was living in Bloomington. Budi has received the Southeast Asian Writing Award, the Writer's Award from the Governor of East Java, and the Anugerah Seni (Award for the Artist) sponsored by the Republic of Indonesia. Budi's fiction also appears in the anthology BLACK CLOUDS OVER THE ISLE OF GODS AND OTHER MODERN INDONESIAN SHORT STORIES (M.E. Sharpe, 1997), edited and translated by David Roskies. During 2002 he was a Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, in Singapore. Cara Diaconoff is a lecturer in English at Texas Christian University, where she teaches creative writing, literature, and composition. She has published stories in Other Voices, descant, and Indiana Review, and has recently completed a collection of short stories, UNMARRIAGEABLE DAUGHTERS, which she is currently submitting, with fond hopes, to various publishers. From 1997 to 1999 she served as a Peace Corps volunteer teacher in western Russia. She is now drawing on that experience for her latest project, a novel about a young American Mormon man coming out of the closet in contemporary Moscow.
Elizabeth Dodd's most recent book is a work of nonfiction, PROSPECT: JOURNEYS & LANDSCAPES, which has been published by the University of Utah Press in 2003. Her second collection of poems, ARCHETYPAL LIGHT, was published in Spring 2001 by the University of Nevada Press. Her first collection of poetry, LIKE MEMORY, CAVERNS, won the Elmer Holmes Bobst Award and was published by New York University Press in 1992. She is also the author of THE VEILED MIRROR AND THE WOMAN POET: H.D., LOUISE BROGAN, ELIZABETH BISHOP, AND LOUISE GLUCK (University of Missouri Press, 1992). Elizabeth teaches creative writing and literature at Kansas State University, where she also directs the creative writing program. She is twice the winner of the Stamey Outstanding Teaching Award from the College of Arts and Sciences at Kansas State, and she is a recent recipient of the Kansas Arts Council's Fellowship in Poetry. Nancy Eimers is the recipient of a Nation "Discovery" award, two National Endowment for Arts poetry fellowships, and a 1998 Whiting Writers' Award. She is the author of NO MOON (Purdue University Press, 1997), chosen by Ellen Bryant Voigt as the winner of the Verna Emery Prize, and DESTROYING ANGEL (Wesleyan University Press of New England, 1991). Her poems have appeared widely and were recently featured in the 1999 chapbook issue of Black Warrior Review. She teaches in the creative writing programs at Western Michigan University and at Vermont College.
Sascha Feinstein's most recent book, MISTERIOSO, winner of the Hayden Carruth Poetry Award, has just been published by Copper Canyon Press. Sascha's A BIBLIOGRAPHIC GUIDE TO JAZZ POETRY was published in 1998 by Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. He founded the literary magazine Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz & Literature. He is a professor of English at Lycoming College, where he also co-directs the creative writing program. He is the author of the critical study, JAZZ POETRY: FROM THE 1920'S TO THE PRESENT, published in 1997 by Greenwood, and co-edited with Yusef Komunyakaa THE JAZZ POETRY ANTHOLOGY (Indiana University Press, 1991) and THE SECOND SET: THE JAZZ POETRY ANTHOLOGY, VOLUME 2 (Indiana University Press, 1996). He is also the author of two chapbooks of poetry, SUMMERHOUSE PIANO and CHRISTMAS EVE. More about him can be found at Sascha Feinstein, Lycoming College.
Eileen FitzGerald's collection of short stories, YOU'RE SO BEAUTIFUL (St. Martin's Press, 1996), was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year 1996 and has been reissued in paperback by St. Martin's Griffin. YOU'RE SO BEAUTIFUL was also listed as a "New & Noteworthy Paperback" by the New York Times Book Review. Eileen's short stories have been published in Prairie Schooner, Iowa Review, Crab Orchard Review, Puerto del Sol, Other Voices, Hopewell Review, and the anthology THE HABIT OF ART: BEST STORIES FROM THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY FICTION WORKSHOP (Indiana University Press). She was also the recipient of a fiction fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.
Dobby Gibson has just been awarded a 2004 McKnight Artist Fellowship, a competition coordinated by the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His first book of poems, POLAR, received the 2004 Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books and was published in May 2005. Dobby's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in several publications, including The New England Review, Ploughshares, Crazyhorse, Another Chicago Magazine, The Iowa Review, Third Coast, Fence, and Conduit, among others. He has also won an Asscoaited Writing Programs Intro Journals Award, and his creative writing has been featured on Minnesota Public Radio's weekly arts broadcast, WORD OF MOUTH.
Dorian Gossy's collection of stories, HOUSEHOLD LIES, was the recipient of the First Book Award in Fiction and will be published by Winnow Press in 2005. Her fiction has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Ascent, Beloit Fiction Journal, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Sun, and elsewhere. Dorian has received two fellowships from the Indiana Arts Commission, an Artist-in-Education residency, a Floyd County Council for the Arts Fellowship residency at the Mary Anderson Center, and fiction prizes from Willow Springs and the Seattle Review. She teaches creative writing in adult education classes in Bloomington, Indiana.
Vince Gotera was named editor of North America Review, the oldest literary magazine in the U.S., in June 2000. His book of poetry, DRAGONFLY (Pecan Grove Press, 1994), is now in its third printing. His poems have recently appeared in Ploughshares, Forkroads, the Asian Pacific American Journal, and War, Literature and the Arts, as well as the anthologies FLIPPIN': FILIPINOS ON AMERICA (Asian American Writers' Workshop) and RETURNING A BORROWED TONGUE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF FILIPINO AND FILIPINO AMERICAN POETRY IN ENGLISH (Coffee House Press). He has a story in CONTEMPORARY FICTION BY FILIPINOS IN AMERICA (Anvil), and critical articles in Callaloo and the Journal of American Culture. He is also the author of RADICAL VISIONS: POETRY BY VIETNAM VETERANS (University of Georgia Press, 1994). More information about Vince can be found at Vince Gotera, University of Northern Iowa.
Jennifer Grotz was named winner of the 2002 Bakeless Prize for Poetry for her collection of poems, CUSP, which Houghton Mifflin Company published in 2003. Yusek Komunyakaa was the judge. Jennifer's poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Black Warrior Review, Puerto del Sol, New England Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Sycamore Review, New Orleans Review, Phoebe, Brilliant Corners, and elsewhere, as well as BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2000 (Scribner's). She is a contributing editor for an online literature and design quarterly called Born Magazine, the recent recipient of an Oregon Literary Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission, and also the recipient of a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Fellowship in 1995.
Carol Guess teaches in the creative writing program at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. Her most recent book is FEMME'S DICTIONARY, a collection of poetry published by Calyx Books. She is also the author of the memoir GASLIGHT, which was published in 2001 by Odd Girls Press and was nominated for the prestigious Lambda Literary Award. Carol's first novel, SEEING DELL, was published in 1996 by Cleis Press; another novel, SWITCH, was published in 1998 with Calyx Books. Her short fiction has recently appeared in the anthology, LOVE SHOOK MY HEART: NEW LESBIAN LOVE STORIES (Alyson Books), and is forthcoming in BEST LESBIAN LOVE STORIES and A WOMAN'S TOUCH, and her fiction, essays, and poems are included in Poetry Northwest, Fourth Genre, Bakunin, Interim, The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Mankato Poetry Review, Third Wave Agenda, Malachite & Agate, Hiram Poetry Review, Poetry Motel, Blue Violin, Crab Orchard Review, Gerbil, Birmingham Poetry Review, Bay Windows, Red Cedar Review, Illya's Honey, Icon, and The Arts Journal. Currently she is at work on a new novel titled RETRIEVAL.
Jeffrey Gundy's most recent collection of poetry, DEERFLIES, was named winner of the 2003 Editions Poetry Prize and published by WordTech Editions in 2004. His book of creative nonfiction, SCATTERING POINT: THE WORLD IN A MENNONITE EYE, was released in 2003 by the State University of New York Press. His most recent poems, essays, and reviews are appearing in The Sun, Shenandoah, Pleiades, Artful Dodge, Creative Nonfiction, The Georgia Review, Exquisite Corpse, Poetry Northwest, and Spoon River Poetry Review. His book, A COMMUNITY OF MEMORY: MY DAYS WITH GEORGE AND CLARA, was published in 1996 by the University of Illinois Press and had the additional distinction of being the inaugural volume in Illinois Press's new Creative Nonfiction series, edited by G. Douglas Atkins. Jeff is a professor of English and Faculty Scholar at Bluffton College in Ohio.
Rachel Hall is an Associate Professor of English and creative writing at State University of New York at Geneseo. Her short stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Lilith, The Gettysburg Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Crab Orchard Review, Black Warrior Review, and New Virginia Review, as well as the anthologies, 24/7: AN ANTHOLOGY OF WRITING BY WORKING MOTHERS, TANZANIA ON TUESDAY: WRITING BY WOMEN ABROAD (New Rivers Press, 1997), and the anthology THE HABIT OF ART: BEST STORIES FROM THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY FICTION WORKSHOP (Indiana University Press). Her essays and reviews have also appeared in the Chicago Tribune. Her short story, "For the Living," was awarded first place in Lilith's 2001 Fiction competition, and another story was a finalist in Nimrod's 2001 Katherine Anne Porter Award competition. She has recently completed a collection of short stories, ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT, and is working on a novel, HEAVEN AND EARTH, about the Oneida community as well as an anthology, FEMALE TROUBLES: WOMEN'S STORIES OF HEALTH AND HEALING.
James Harms' third collection of poetry, QUARTERS, has just been published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press. His second book of poems, THE JOY ADDICT, was also published by Carnegie-Mellon and was awarded the PEN/Revson Fellowship. His first book of poetry was MODERN OCEAN (Carnegie-Mellon, 1992). Jim is an associate professor of English at West Virginia University, where he also serves as coordinator of the creative writing program and director of the West Virginia Writers' Workshop, an annual summer conference. He was the recipient of the 1998-99 Outstanding Teacher Award by the West Virginia University Foundation, and in 1999 was named by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as the 1999 U.S. Professor of the Year for West Virginia.
Christa Hein has been working in Germany as a freelance writer, journalist, and translator since 1991. Her first novel, QUICKSAND, was published in 1994 by Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. THE LIGHT ON THE SIDE OF THE HOUSE, Hein's second novel, was published by Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt in 1998. Christa's third novel, SCIROCCO, was published by Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt in 2000, which in 2004 also released her fourth novel, ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD. She has published translations of plays by Ralph Burdman (Hunzinger Verlag), a novel by Donald Harington (Eichborn Verlag), and poetry by Lynda Hull (Akzente/Hanser Verlag). Christa's journalistic publications have appeared in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, and Zurcher Tagesanzeiger/Das Magazin. Hein also teaches creative writing classes for German teachers, and writes scripts for various radio stations in Germany.
Christie Hodgen's first novel, HELLO, I MUST BE GOING, will be published by W. W. Norton in 2005. Christie was the winner of the 2001 Associated Writing Programs Award in Short Fiction for her collection, A JEWELER'S EYE FOR FLAW (University of Massachusetts Press, 2002), which was also named a finalist for the 2003 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, given to the most outstanding first work of fiction published during the previous year. Her fiction has also been awarded a 2002 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the 2001 Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Award for the Novella, a 2001 Kentucky Arts Council Professional Assistance Award, the 2001 Quarterly West Novella Award, the 2000 Tobias Wolff Award in Fiction, and First Prize in the Ernest Hemingway Days Festival Short Story Contest. Her stories have been published widely, in NEW STORIES FROM THE SOUTH: THE YEAR'S BEST, 2001 (Algonquin Books), The Bellingham Review, The Texas Review, SCRIBNER'S BEST OF THE FICTION WORKSHOPS 1999, The Greensboro Review, Meridian, Notre Dame Review, and the anthology THE HABIT OF ART: BEST STORIES FROM THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY FICTION WORKSHOP (Indiana University Press). Andrea Jayaveeran won the 1998 National Literature Competition: Creation of a Fiction Character contest sponsored by the National Society of Arts and Letters (Washington, D.C. chapter). The award granted her $4,000 and a trip to Ann Arbor to compete for the National NSAL Award, which is worth $10,000. Andrea's fiction also received a 1997 Pushcart Prize and appeared in PUSHCART PRIZE XXI: BEST OF THE SMALL PRESSES. She currently lives and works in Washington, D.C.
Dana Johnson is the author of the short story collection, BREAK ANY WOMAN DOWN (University of Georgia Press, 2001), which was the winner of the 2001 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction as well as one of six finalists for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Debut/First Fiction category). Her collection was also a finalist for the 2002 Paterson Fiction Prize, sponsored by the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College, and was released in a trade paperback edition by Anchor Books. Her short fiction has appeared in the Missouri Review, the American Literary Review, and the anthologies, SHAKING THE TREE: A COLLECTION OF FICTION AND MEMOIR BY BLACK WOMEN (W. W. Norton), THE DICTIONARY OF FAILED RELATIONSHIPS: 26 STORIES ABOUT LOVE GONE WRONG (Three Rivers Press), and the anthology THE HABIT OF ART: BEST STORIES FROM THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY FICTION WORKSHOP (Indiana University Press). She teaches in the M.F.A. Program at the University of California, Riverside.
Allison Joseph's most recent collection of poetry, IMITATION OF LIFE, has just been published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press. Her fifth collection of poetry, WORLDLY PLEASURES, has won the Word Press Poetry Book Contest and will be published by Word Press in 2004. Her previous books include SOUL TRAIN, which was published in 1997 by Carnegie-Mellon University Press, and IN EVERY SEAM, which was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press as part of the Pitt Poetry Series. Her first book of poetry was WHAT KEEPS US HERE (Ampersand, 1992), winner of Ampersand Press' 1992 Women Poets Series competition and the John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares. She has also been awarded a 1997 Illinois Arts Council Literary Award and a $5,000 Individual Artist Fellowship in Poetry from the Illinois Arts Council in 1996. She teaches in the creative writing program at Southern Illinois University and serves as poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review.
Vandana Khanna's collection of poetry, TRAIN TO AGRA, won the Crab Orchard Review Poetry Prize for a First Book and was published by Southern Illinois University Press in October 2001. She received the 1997 Ross Lockridge, Jr. Award in Creative Writing while at Indiana University. As Area Coordinator of Residential Life and Program Coordination in Student Activities at Whittier College outside Los Angeles, Van manages two buildings and supervises a staff of students responsible for crisis management and student conduct. She also advises Whittier College's student minority caucus and multicultural interns, and teaches a course on student leadership. Van's poetry has appeared in the Hawaii Review, Puerto del Sol, Crazyhorse, International Poetry Review, Cream City Review, and elsewhere. Terry Alan Kirts is currently a full-time faculty member of the English department at Butler University in Indianapolis. His poems have appeared in Third Coast, Green Mountains Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Artful Dodge, Sycamore Review, Flying Island, The James White Review, and elsewhere. He recently wrote the text for a choral requiem entitled, "A Century of Aprils," which was performed by Philadelphia's Bridge Ensemble in May of 1998.
Barbara Koons' first book of poetry, NIGHT HIGHWAY, was published in 2005 by Cloudbank Books in Corvallis, Oregon. The collection was a finalist in the Rhea and Seymour Gorsline First Book Competition. Barbara's poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Earth's Daughters, The Flying Island, The Hopewell Review, and elsewhere. She has received a number of awards for her poetry, including semi-finalist status in the "Discovery"/The Nation Competition in 2003. For over twenty years, Barbara was actively involved with the Writers' Center of Indiana, where her volunteer duties included serving as events coordinator, and also as director of the Poetry in the Gallery reading series sponsored jointly with the Indianapolis Museum of Art. |
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