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About Michael Caylo-Baradi

Michael Caylo-Baradi is an alumnus of The Writers’ Institute at The Graduate Center (CUNY). His work has appeared in the Kenyon Review Online, The Common (Online), Empty Mirror, Eunoia Review, The Galway Review, Galatea Resurrects, Our Own Voice, PopMatters, New Pages, Ink Sweat & Tears, and elsewhere. His personal website is mcaylo.blogspot.com/ and he's on Twitter @MCayloBaradi.

Unnatural Habitats & Other Stories​ by Angela Mitchell, reviewed by Michael Caylo-Baradi

Michael Caylo-Baradi

UNNATURAL HABITATS & OTHER STORIES by Angela Mitchell

Unnatural Habitats & Other Stories by Angela Mitchell / WTAW Press / 978-0-9988014-6-9 / 2018 In “Animal Lover,” the first story in Unnatural​ Habitats & Other Stories​, we encounter a post-sex … [Read more...]

Book Review – The Last First Day: A Novel

Michael Caylo-Baradi

The Last First Day: A Novel by Carrie Brown

The Last First Day: A Novel by Carrie Brown / Pantheon / 304 pages / 978-0307908032 Carrie Brown’s prose sucks you into a kind of lull. Images of rooms without bodies, twilights in small … [Read more...]

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

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