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Mary-Kim Arnold’s Litany for the Long Moment (Essay Press, 2018), an experimental memoir about her adoption from Korea at the age of two, has been honored by the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association, featured in NPR’s Code Switch 2018 Book Guide, and as a Rumpus Book Club selection. Litany for the Long Moment was named by Entropy Magazine as one of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2018. Her poetry collection, The Fish & The Dove, is forthcoming from Noemi Press in 2020. Her work has appeared in Conjunctions, Hyperallergic, Poem-a-Day, The Georgia Review, The Rumpus, and Tupelo Quarterly. She lives in Rhode Island and teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program at Brown University.