Celeste Pepitone-Nahas is a writer, musician, and educator.Her nonfiction has appeared in Czech Music Quarterly, GlissandoMagazine, Transitions Magazine, and the Czech new musicmagazine Časopis o jiné hudbě. Her poetry can be found in Annulet:A Journal of Poetics and elsewhere. She earned her MFA fromWashington University in St. Louis in 2021, where she was awarded the MFAAlumni Prize for Best Novel-in-Progress. In 2024, she was named to the FictionLonglist for the Disquiet International Literary Prize.

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