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Tucker Leighty-Phillips is an English student at Bucknell University. He was a 2015 recipient of the Academy of American Poets College Prize and his work (fiction or other) has been featured in Maudlin House, Atlas Obscura, Pop-Break, and a number of other mediums. He is also the co-creator of the comic book Wrestling With Demons, a joint effort between him and illustrator Travis Geoghegan. Find him on social media @TuckerLeighty.
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