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Marina Leigh

Marina Leigh is a queer, biracial writer and photographer born and raised in Reno, Nevada. She earned her MFA in poetry as the Grisham Fellow at the University of Mississippi. Her work has been published in several journals, and she is the author of a poetry chapbook titled Wild Daughter.

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Podcast: Wired's Makena Kelly on Elon Musk, DOGE, and breaking news narratives

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