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Born in Virginia and raised in Alabama, Karie now lives and writes off-grid in the foothills of the Oregon coast range. She earned her MFA in creative nonfiction from Oregon State University and is now a special education teaching assistant. She is currently at work on a memoir about how the Iraq war and opioid crisis left her widowed at 24. Find more of her work here: https://kariefugett.wordpress.com/archives/. Follow her on Twitter @kariewrites