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Carolyn Byrne is a writer from Long Island, New York. She studied English at Cornell University and earned her MFA from the University of Minnesota. Her work has received support from the MacDowell Colony, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, and the Libra Foundation. She is currently at work on her first novel.
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