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Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg’s fiction has appeared in One Story, American Short Fiction, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008. Her first collection, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, is forthcoming.

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Laura van den Berg

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