Karen Hays received a 2014 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award for her nonfiction. Her work has appeared in the Iowa Review, the_Normal School, Conjunctions, and Passages North_. Prior to essaying, Karen studied biogeochemistry at the University of Minnesota. She recently moved with her family from Minneapolis to the Monterey Peninsula.
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