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M. L. Rio
Aug 13, 2023
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Johnson City, Tennessee

I took a gap year in 2014 between my undergrad and graduate school, partly because I was still waffling between a creative writing MFA and an MA in Shakespeare studies, but mostly because I wanted to focus on finishing Villains, the first novel I’d written that felt like it might be readable. I had four jobs; I worked for two thea…

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