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Doris W. Cheng is a Taiwanese American writer and editor. She is the author of a fiction chapbook, Earthling (Word West Press, 2021), and her stories and essays appear inShenandoah, New Orleans Review, Witness, The Normal School, The Cincinnati Review, and other literary magazines. She is Assistant Fiction Editor at Bellevue Literary Review. “Keep Your Enemies Close” is an excerpt from her novel-in-progress.
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