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Beth Roddy

Beth Roddy won the 2014 Gabriele Rico Creative Nonfiction Challenge and her work has appeared in Reed Magazine. Beth has received fellowships from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts and a writer grant from Vermont Studio Center. She earned her MFA at University of North Carolina Wilmington. Visit her at bethroddy.com.

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Beth Roddy

Feb 5, 2017

The Sunday Rumpus Essay: I Died of Dysentery

The glorious ways we fifth graders died in Mr. Mosher’s computer class. We strove to die in the most imaginable permutations possible.

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