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Aileen Keown Vaux reads "How I Became Impossible," by Mary Ruefle

Dean Davis

Aileen Keown Vaux is a queer poet and essayist whose chapbook Consolation Prize was published in 2018 by Scablands Books. Their poems can be found in Faultline Journal, Roanoke Review, Northwest
Review, and forthcoming in Portland Review. Their interviews are published with The Rumpus and Willow Springs Magazine.