You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine (33 page)

Thanks also to Heidi Julavits, Ben Marcus, and Sam Lipsyte at Columbia for encouraging me to write what I could not yet write, and to early readers JW McCormack, Shayne Barr, Kimberly Wang, and Kathleen Alcott, who each embody a way of seeing that I wish I could make my own. To my parents for loving me and teaching me. And to Alex Gilvarry, a fantastic person to love.

ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN
has written for publications including the
Paris Review, Zoetrope, Guernica, Tin House
, and
n+1
. She received her MFA in fiction from Columbia University and has received grants and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. She is currently completing a PhD in Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. She lives in New York City.

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