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Alexandra Kleeman was raised in Boulder, Colorado and lives in Brooklyn. Her short fiction has appeared in journals such as The Paris Review, Zoetrope: All-Story, Conjunctions, and DIAGRAM. Essays and other nonfiction pieces have appeared or are forthcoming in Tin House and Triple Canopy. In addition to her work in the M.F.A. fiction program at Columbia, she holds a B.A. from Brown University and an M.A. in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley, where she did work on the intersection of experimental poetics and brain science. She is currently completing her dissertation, and working on a novel about snack cakes and cartoons.