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Jan Marin Tramontano

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Jan Marin Tramontano is a poet and novelist. She wrote three poetry chapbooks, Woman Sitting in a Café and other poems of Paris, Floating Islands: New and Collected Poems, and Paternal Nocturne.

We've Come Undone reprinted in 2022 after its debut publication as What Love Becomes, is a novel about the choices we make, how they shape our lives, and how our innate resilience propels us toward reclaiming the lost parts of ourselves. Two stories from it have been published (Adelaide Literary Magazine and AOIS21). Standing on the Corner of Lost and Found, her debut novel, is a story about broken hearts and fragile dreams repaired through the indelible ties of friendship and family.

Her poems appear in her poetry collective’s anthology, Java Wednes
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Theo of Golden: A Story of Kindness and Generosity

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“Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”
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“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
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“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
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“Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.”
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“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
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