A Goodbye Letter from the Managing Editor Abbie Skinner __________ A little over two years ago, at the end of my first year of McNeese’s MFA program, everything was changing. The third year students I’d come to rely on for guidance and encouragement were graduating; Allie Mariano, the interim Fiction Director…
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