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Alishya Almeida (they/she) is a writer and educator from Mumbai currently based in the United States. Their writing has been published in Bellevue Literary Review, The World That Belongs To Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia, Gloom Cupboard, Leaf Garden Press, and Horror Homeroom.
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