A. J. Gnuse is the author of Girl in the Walls, published by 4th Estate and Ecco in 2021. He received an MFA in fiction from UNC Wilmington and was a Kenyon Review Peter Taylor fellow. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, Gulf Coast, Literary Hub, Los Angeles Review, Passages North, and other venues. A native of New Orleans, he lives in Texas.

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