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Laura Bernstein-Machlay is a longtime Detroiter who teaches at the College for Creative Studies. Her work has appeared in the American Scholar, Georgia Review, Hotel Amerika, Into the Void, Michigan Quarterly Review, Redivider, World Literature Today, and many others. She has essays forthcoming in Gargoyle and the Massachusetts Review. Her full-length collection of creative nonfiction, Travelers, was published in 2018.