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Hannah Lee Thorpe is a fiction writer from Topanga Canyon, CA. She holds a degree in The Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University and is currently pursuing an MFA at the University of Illinois. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Joyland, Ninth Letter, Story Magazine and elsewhere.