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When Cynthia Newberry Martin asked me to write a post for her popular “How We Spend Our Days” feature, I wanted to do right by her. For years I’ve admired Cynthia as a writer (author of The Art of Her Life, Love Like This, and Tidal Flats), a reader, and a team member of Writing by Writers. Cynthia has excellent taste and a bone-dry sense of humor.

Now that it’s done, I think something else.

I didn’t know how much I needed to write this.

You can read the here:

https://substack.com/home/post/p-209375077

and here:

How We Spend Our Days: Maureen Aitken

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Maureen Aitken

Maureen Aitken’s multi-award winning short story collection will be reissued by Wayne State University in September. Her stories have been published widely in journals such as Prairie Schooner and New Letters. Most recently, her story was a finalist for The Missouri Review’s Perkoff Prize. She teaches writing at the University of Minnesota.

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