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Maria Nieto is a biology professor at Cal State East Bay. Maria’s works of fiction, Pig Behind The Bear and The Water of Life Remains in the Dead, have won several literary awards. Through history, science, and humor, Maria forces us to see the unseen: those killed and abused under the cover of nightfall. Maria’s third book, a work of nonfiction, The Spectrum of Sex: The Science of Male, Female, and Intersex, will be released early 2020.

www.pigbehindthebear.com


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21 Apr 2025

tomorrow when i have hardened, and your body has renewed.
A recent wave of research into the quantum properties of emotion suggests that love may be more than a fleeting human experience
Every spring, the new year came down from the mountains to eat the old one.
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