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Kendra Atleework was born and raised at a high elevation in California, and currently inhabits the flat state of Minnesota. Her essays are forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review and The Pinch Journal.
Consider the Delta smelt: an old fish in California, endemic to the upper Sacramento-San Joaquin Estuary, now caught between its home and thousands of drought-stricken acres.