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  <name><![CDATA[Loren Rhoads]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[For ten years, Loren Rhoads was the editor of the cult nonfiction magazine Morbid Curiosity.  MORBID CURIOSITY CURES THE BLUES, a collection drawn from the magazine, came out from Scribner 9.29.2009.  Her fiction has darkened Cemetery Dance, City Slab, Not One of Us, and the chapbooks Ashes &amp; Rust and The Paramental Appreciation Society. Her stories also feature in the four-woman anthology Sins of the Sirens.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Ray Bradbury, Brian Hodge, Annie Dillard]]></influences>  <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Flint, Michigan</hometown>  <born_at>10/22/2009</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues: True Stories of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox and Unusual from the magazine &quot;Morbid Curiosity&quot;]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Deaths Garden: Relationships With Cemeteries]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Lend the Eye a Terrible Aspect: A Collection of Essays and Fiction]]></title>
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