“I Like My Body More When it is Bruised” by Megan Ellis

by Dec 24, 2020Foglifter Features, Volume Four

Megan Ellis is a writer, editor, and graphic designer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her work appears in Seneca Review, Entropy, and elsewhere. She has also been a finalist in nonfiction contests from Redivider, Passages North, and Crab Orchard Review.


 

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