Candling

By Ananda Lima

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Ananda Lima’s work has appeared or is upcoming in The American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, Colorado Review, Passages North, The Acentos Review, The Common and elsewhere. She has an MA in Linguistics from UCLA and an MFA in Creative Writing in fiction from Rutgers University, Newark. She was a mentor at the NYFA Immigrant Artist Program. Her poetry chapbook, Translation (Paper Nautilus, 2019), won the 2018 Vella Chapbook prize.