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Anne Valente

Anne Valente

Anne Valente is also the author of the critically acclaimed novel, Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down. Her short story collection, By Light We Knew Our Names, won the Dzanc Books Short Story Prize. Her fiction and essays have appeared in One Story, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The Believer, Catapult, The Rumpus, and The Washington Post, among other publications. Originally from St. Louis, she currently lives and teaches at Hamilton College in New York.

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Books:

The Desert Sky Before Us, May 2019
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