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by Brittany Adames

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This piece is part of our Winter 2022 print issue, available for purchase here.

Brittany Adames

Brittany Adames is a Dominican-American writer. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and featured in Palette Poetry, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Cosmonauts Avenue, Stonecoast Review, and elsewhere. She is an M.F.A. candidate in poetry at Brooklyn College.

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