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Heather Kamins

Heather Kamins is the author of the novel The Moth Girl (2022, Putnam/Penguin Teen), which was selected for Locus magazine's 2022 Recommended Reading List and named a Must-Read by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Her short fiction has appeared in Guernica, Escape Pod, Luna Station Quarterly, and elsewhere, and she has received fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and Bread Loaf Writers Conference.

So Many Seasons

Heather Kamins

Ava is born at 12:00 a.m. sharp on the first day of spring, with purple crocus buds pushing through the patchy snow outside. It is a home birth, and she spends her first day on earth squalling and sleeping, nursing and acclimating to her new existence. She has a mother and a father who gaze […]