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Cody Klippenstein

is a writer whose short fiction has appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, Epoch, Room,The Fiddlehead, and elsewhere. Born in Toronto and raised in Vancouver and on the Connecticut Shore, she currently lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where she teaches creative writing and is at work on a novel. She holds an M.F.A. from Cornell University.

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short fiction

Minor Aberrations in Geologic Time” - Anthologized in After Realism: 24 Stories for the 21st Century. Originally published in Little Fiction. Read it online here.

Animal” - Epoch

Becoming” - Room

Case Studies in Ascension” - Zoetrope: All-Story. Winner of the Short Fiction Competition, judged by Karen Russell.

Thrown Overboard, Manacled in a Box” - Joyland. Read it online here.

We’ve Gotta Get out of Here” - The Fiddlehead. Winner of the Fiction Contest, judged by Alexander MacLeod.