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Despy Boutris is a writer, editor, and educator. She is the author of the fiction chapbook Burials (Bull City Press, 2022) and also has appeared in Ploughshares, Guernica, Agni, Copper Nickel, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere. Currently, she is based in Oakland, where she serves as Editor-in-Chief of The West Review.