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Jennifer Loring

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Jennifer Loring's short fiction has been widely published in numerous magazines, webzines, and anthologies. She received an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror for her short story “The Bombay Trash Service”, and in 2013 won first place in Crystal Lake Publishing's inaugural Tales from the Lake horror writing competition. Since then, her work has appeared in two Bram Stoker Award-nominated anthologies.

Jennifer completed her PhD in Humanities and Culture with a graduate certificate in Women's and Gender Studies. She also received an MFA from Seton Hill University’s program in Writing Popular Fiction, with a concentration in horror. Jenn lives in Philly with her husband, turtle, and a basset shepherd.
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Travel is officially over for me for the year (she says, looking at her Booking.com rewards…), mostly because one of my two trips involved flying to and from Korea in the space of four days. This was for my sister’s wedding, a traditional pyebaek at a palace in Seoul that was certainly a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

What better way to spend one’s first trip to East Asia than to be fully immer

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“tattooed a Michelangelo quote across his left ribs in graceful script: ‘I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
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“Hubert Selby, Jr.: ‘Because we choose to live the dream instead of choosing to live the life.”
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