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Vasantha Sambamurti is a poet, translator, and prose writer. They are an MFA candidate at the University of Arkansas’ Program in Creative Writing and Translation. She is the senior editor for Transition Magazine, founded in Uganda in 1961 by Rajat Neogy, now based at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, her work appears in Northwest Review, Portland Review, Waxwing, Exchanges: A Journal of Literary Translation, Minnesota Review, Cream City Review, and elsewhere.

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