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Lydia Mathis

Lydia Mathis has an MFA in fiction from New York University. She is the recipient of A Public Space’s 2023 Editorial Fellowship and is currently an assistant editor at A Public Space. She has stories published in North American Review, Southeast Review, Torch Magazine, Stanchion, Five on the Fifth, and oranges journal. Her new book, Desperate Bodies, is out now from Roxane Gay Books.
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    you won’t hear this

    When mom would tell me the story of my birth, I always imagined the hospital room was dark, like the only light was coming in from the hallway or maybe a small nightlight plugged into a far corner of the…