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Forrest Roth is the author of a novella, Line and Pause (BlazeVOX Books), with shorter fiction appearing in NOON, Denver Quarterly, Quick Fiction, Sleepingfish, Caketrain, elimae, 5_Trope, Mad Hatters Review, Locus Novus, and other journals. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette.