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In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Elizabeth Ziemska's "Count Poniatowski and the Beautiful Chicken." You can read the full text of the story, and more about Elizabeth Ziemska, here.

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Anaea Lay lives in Chicago, Illinois where she writes, cooks, plays board games, reads too much, and questions the benevolence of the universe. Her work has appeared in many places including Apex, Penumbra, Lightspeed, Daily Science Fiction, and Nightmare. She lives online at anaealay.com.
Elizabeth Ziemska lives and works in Malibu, California with her family and two hairy dogs. She has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her work has been published in Tin House and Interfictions:2, and has been nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. She is at work on her first novel, tentatively titled Life Cycle of the Sturgeon.
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