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John Bishop has lived in Korea, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. He worked as a reporter and freelance writer in Portland, Maine, and is currently studying for his MFA at the University of Michigan.
‘He adjusted the speed on the cruise control to an even sixty and stared out the window at the rows of cattails growing on the side of the turnpike. Through their tawny, rowed communities he could see New York approach from the east, a tangle of concrete and steel. He drove past the city, further north, until he couldn’t wait any longer, which turned out to be Massachusetts.’