Once upon a time there was hope.
Hope for the environment and hope for elephants and cows and salmon. Hope for trans women, who are a particularly targeted minority, and hope for all people, CIS, or not, queer, straight and/or all orientations. Hope for justice, hope for peace, hope for enough prosperity for people in California and Greece and Nigeria, and China. And Gaza City and Mexico City. And in your house and in your hometown. Hope for books and hope for learning. Hope for presidents, preachers, and sex workers. And health care workers, particularly first responders and paramedics. Hope for kids of all ages. Hope for all creative people making whatever it is they make in the direction of the good.
Happy 2013.
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Stephanie Barbé Hammer is a magical realist prose fiction writer, novelist, occasional essayist, and a committed, intermittent poet. A 6-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize she has published work in Hayden's Ferry, Pearl, CRATE, Rhapsoidia, NYCBigCityLit, the East Jasmine Review, Apeiron, Inlandia, Literary Alchemy and the Bellevue Literary Review among other places. Her novel _The Puppet Turners of Narrow Interior_ appeared in March 2015 with Urban Farmhouse Press, and her Narrow Interior novelette, _Rescue Plan, appeared in February 2021 with Bamboo Dart Press. Her poetry collection _How Formal?_ was published in 2014 with Spout Hill Press and her prose poem collection _SEX WITH BUILDINGS_ was published in May 2012 by Dancing Girl Press. Stephanie flunked early retirement at the University of California Riverside and is currently feeding her teaching love at Edmonds Community College, Hugo House and the Inlandia Institute. iShe is currently managing editor for SHARK REEF literary magazine and is working on two new novels, and two new poetry collections, Her manual on how to write magical realism _Delicious Strangeness_ is available from Spout Hill Press.
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