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Tessa Cheek

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Published Work
[fiction, essays, poems] 

The amazing editorial crew at Hypocrite Reader asked me to submit something that felt like a loose end, something unresolved. I knew just what they were talking about. It was this essay, mostly written five years ago, heavily edited recently and published now: “Bigness Has No Name”.

The wonderful folks at The Ilanot Review published my short story "The Devil's Terrible Nearness" and nominated it for a Pushcart Prize! You can read the story online, here. 

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I met the subject of The Dry Sea trespassing the burnt remains of her house. Nearly the last occupant of a ghost town on Colorado’s southeastern plains, she was generous and terrifying, a high artist of small talk capable of compressing whole novels into clucking aphorisms. Read it in The Hypocrite Reader 

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Read my poem, GRANDMOTHER, in Sugared Water. 

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Portable Words: a chaotic translation. Read it in The Hypocrite Reader