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Mia Mercado

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Mia Mercado is a writer based in the Midwest. She’s originally from Milwaukee and probably pronounces “bag” wrong. Her work has been featured in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post’s The Lily, New York Magazine’s The Cut, Bustle, McSweeney’s, and a bottle she threw into the Milwaukee River when she was nine.

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