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Kerri Arsenault

Kerri Arsenault is an editor at Orion and Lithub.com. She also serves on the National Book Critics Circle Board and teaches nonfiction in The Master of Arts program in Writing and Oral Traditions at the Graduate Institute in Bethany, Connecticut. Her book, What Remains, is about the hazards of living in and leaving the paper mill town of Mexico, Maine. (September 2020)

My Eighty-Six Jobs

While I couldn’t pull myself out of the clogged sink trap of minimum wages until I married the right man, my father had no choice but to accept the bargain of being steadily poisoned by the industry that sustained him.

September 1, 2020

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