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Melissa Balmain
Melissa Balmain is a writer, teacher, and recovering mime. She edits Light, the country’s longest-running journal of comic verse. Her latest book is The Witch Demands a Retraction: Fairy Tale Reboots for Adults (Humorist Books).
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July 21, 2022Hemingway Updated for the Post-Roe Generation
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