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Afton Montgomery has recent work in Electric Lit, The Millions, Chicago Review of Books, Pleiades, The Common, Prairie Schooner, Fence, and others. A former independent bookstore buyer in Denver, she calls Colorado home.
The author’s new book is an unflinching treatise on Roe v. Wade and life post-Dobbs.