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    Patty Yumi Cottrell, Fiction

    by Patty Yumi Cottrell Mar 21, 2018 3 minutes

    Patty Yumi Cottrell, who “opens up fresh lines of questioning in the old interrogations of identity, the politics of belonging, and the problem of other minds,” was born in Korea and raised in Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Milwaukee. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Guernica, BOMB, Gulf Coast, Black Warrior Review, and other places. Her debut novel, Sorry to Disrupt the Peace, was published by McSweeney’s last year. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

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