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Protected: His Daughter’s Poetry Is His Midlife Crisis

“Phillip Whitney” by Anna Reeser, recommended by Willem Marx for Electric Literature

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Protected: His Daughter’s Poetry Is His Midlife Crisis

Anna Reeser
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Anna Reeser is a writer and freelance fiction editor from Ojai, California. Her short fiction has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2020 and is published in journals including Cimarron Review, CutBank, Khôra, The Masters Review, and Fourteen Hills. She is an alum of the Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshops, the Tin House Winter Workshop, and the One Story Writing Circle. Find her at annareeser.com.

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Willem Marx is Electric Literature's associate editor. He is also Nonfiction Editor of Asymptote. His writing can be found in Necessary Fiction, Publishers Weekly, and elsewhere.
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Recommended Reading is the weekly fiction magazine from Electric Literature, publishing here every Wednesday morning. In addition to featuring our own recommendations of original, previously unpublished fiction, we invite established authors, indie presses, and literary magazines to recommend great work from their pages, past and present. Sign up for our Recommended Reading newsletter to get every issue straight to your inbox, or join our membership program for access to year-round submissions. EL’s literary magazines are supported in part by the Amazon Literary Partnership Literary Magazine Fund and the Community of Literary Magazines & Presses, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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