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This poem is from the chapbook White Brown by Kayla Pica Williams (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/white-brown-by-kayla-pica-williams/
Kayla Pica Williams is a fifth year in her English with a creative writing emphasis PhD at ISU. She obtained her masters from CalArts and has published several short pieces in Stirling Lit, Club Plum, Unlikely Stories, Setu Magazine, ionosphere, Rigorous, and Rosette Maleficarum, a novella in Big Fiction Magazine and a play in Open: Journal Arts and Letters. She is a second-generation Peruvian American who enjoys long walks with her King Charles and teaches at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Find her @KaylaPicaWilliams.bsky.social
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