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This poem is from the chapbook Mice Inherit Apocalypse by Emma Johnson-Rivard (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://finishinglinepress.com/product/mice-inherit-apocalypse-by-emma-johnson-rivard/
Emma Johnson-Rivard is a midwestern writer of poetry and weird fiction. As a child, she was diagnosed with Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAD) and severe dyslexia. Subsequently, she told it was unlikely she would ever learn how to read. It was deemed similarly unlikely that she would ever graduate high school. Several years later, she did just that, before moving onto degrees from Smith College and Hamline University. Born in Minnesota, she currently resides in Ohio, where she is a doctoral student at the University of Cincinnati. Today, she lives with a tortoiseshell cat and a large collection of books. Her poetry has appeared in Backchannels, The Scop Literary and Fine Arts Journal, Lavender Review, Collateral, and many others. Her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Tales to Terrify, Moon City Review, and others. She can be found @blackcattales on Bluesky and at emmajohnson-rivard.com.
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