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Katherine Shonk

Katherine Shonk is the author of the novel Happy Now? and the short-story collection The Red Passport. She lives in Evanston, Illinois, and is writing a novel about immigration and motherhood.

July 20, 2020

Another Dull Quarantine Weekend at Home, Target, Chipotle, Home Depot, and Our Niece’s Graduation Party

by Katherine Shonk

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A Day in the Life of a Woke Third-Grade Teacher, as Imagined by a Far-Right Politician

by Ashley Ingle
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I’m Going to Close This Deal Using Business Words I’ve Heard Men Yell in Airports

by Wendi Aarons
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I’m Your Mom Playing a Video Game, and I Will Turn This Avatar Right Around If You Don’t Watch Your Tone of Voice

by Audrey Burges
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