Michael Hettich is the author of Systems of Vanishing (which won the Tampa Review Prize in 2013 and was published by U of Tampa Press in 2014), The Animals Beyond Us (New Rivers, 2011) and Like Happiness (Anhinga, 2010). “The Party,” “The Scar,” and “This Yearning” are all from a new book, called The Frozen Harbor, which is forthcoming sometime this year from Red Dragonfly Press. He lives with his family in Miami, and tries to collaborate with visual artists and other writers as often as possible.

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