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Barrett Swanson will be the 2016–2017 Halls Emerging Artist Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. He is the winner of a Pushcart Prize, and his short fiction and essays have been distinguished as "notable" in Best American Nonrequired Reading and Best American Essays. His work has appeared most recently in The New Republic, American Short Fiction, Ninth Letter, The Point, and Mississippi Review.
Larry Sultan’s elegiac photography captures the suburban American home.
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