I.S. Nugent

I.S. Nugent is a writer and book critic based in Philadelphia. Her work has been published in Bridge Eight Press and Your Impossible Voice. Her short story “Ginger” received an honorable mention from the Anne Kirschbaum Winkelman Literary Prize.

Murder, Mountain Magic, and Embracing the Weird: A Review of Alisa Alering’s ‘Smothermoss’

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