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Julia Rios is a queer, Latinx writer, editor, podcaster, and narrator whose writing has appeared in Latin American Literature Today, Lightspeed, and Goblin Fruit, among other places. Formerly a fiction editor for Strange Horizons, their editing work has won multiple awards, including the Hugo Award. Julia is a co-host of This is Why We're Like This, a podcast about how the movies we watch in childhood shape our lives, for better or for worse. They've narrated stories for Escape Pod, Podcastle, Pseudopod, and Cast of Wonders. Find them on Twitter as @omgjulia.


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I watch the salmon and the dog dance together, alive and dead and still kicking, kicking, kicking.
“My eyes are up here,” the centaur said. / We were negotiating / the terms of our trip to Canterbury
the way a human girl moves after smoking two bowls, all syrup and swirl of smoke.
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