Chelsea Baumgarten is a writer from Michigan. She holds an MA in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago and an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College, where she was awarded the Himan Brown and Lainoff prizes for fiction writing. Her work has appeared in The Sewanee Review, The Sun, and Electric Literature. She currently lives in Southeast Michigan, near Lake St. Clair, with her husband and son.
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