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About Etan Nechin

Etan Nechin is an Israeli writer living in New York. His writing was published or forthcoming in Boston Review, ZYZZYVA, World Literature Today, The Brooklyn Rail, The Independent, Apogee, Columbia Journal, The Forward, Entropy, and more.

He is the online editor of The Bare Life Review, a journal of immigrant and refugee literature. He is the recipient of the Felipe De Alba Award for Fiction. You can find him on Twitter @etanetan23 and on Instagram @etanetan.

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Etan Nechin

the skagit trail / credit: em

I grew up in a small village in the countryside. The village did not have street names; in fact, streets were rare: most of the village roads were dirt with patches of tar and gravel, there were no … [Read more...]

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Empty Mirror

Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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