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Hussani Abdulrahim is a winner of the 2019 Poetically Written Prose Contest. He was a semifinalist for the Boston Review 2019 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest and shortlisted for the 2019 ACT Award. He also won the 2016 Author Prize. His works are forthcoming or have appeared at 20:35 Africa, praxismagonline, KSR, and Memento (an anthology of contemporary Nigerian poets). He lives in Northern Nigeria.
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