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Michelle Herman

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Michelle Herman will retire from teaching next summer, after thirty-four years at Ohio State University. She plans to split her time between writing and dance. Her newest novel, Close-Up, is forthcoming in March 2022.

— From October 2021
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Better

My eyes filled again. Filippo came by and murmured, “Think of the little light in your chest,” and somehow I understood him. I don’t know how. I let the light shine.

October 2021
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