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Dear Bianca

Emerging Writer Series

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Leah Mell
Dec 06, 2023
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Every two weeks or so I am publishing an essay from an emerging writer. This week, we are publishing “Dear Bianca” by Leah Mell. Leah (she/they) is a genderqueer lesbian writer originally from the American South. At present, she is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her current working obsessions are flamboyance…

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Leah Mell is a genderqueer lesbian writer from the South, living in Las Vegas. She's working on a book about her queer family's experiences in the drag community in the Carolinas & the lineages of that community. She is fond of ghosts & the sea.
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