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Posts by: Sylvia Chan

Lady Justice

October 31st, 2019

I imagine Lady Justice’s fingers tipping the scales: Rose to leave, and me to sleep.

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Sylvia Chan hails from the San Francisco East Bay, where she performed as a jazz pianist. She lives in Tucson, where she teaches at the University of Arizona and serves as court advocate for foster kids in Pima County and nonfiction editor at Entropy. Her debut poetry collection is We Remain Traditional (Center for Literary Publishing 2018), and her essays appear in Prairie Schooner, Passages North, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019.

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