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Lauren Paredes
is a storyteller across the mediums with a soft spot for the unusual. Her work has appeared in TRNSFR, Ruminate Magazine’s The Waking, forthcoming in *82 Review, and elsewhere. Her first book of poems, Otherwise, Magic, was released in 2019 by First Matter Press. She currently resides in Portland, Oregon.