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Some worlds never touch except at this hour. / The sun has set and turned her back, weeping / for a cave where she could be safe once more.
Betsy Aoki
Elizabeth (Betsy) Aoki is a poet, short story writer and game producer. Her work has appeared/is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, and Asimov’s Magazine of Science Fiction, and is anthologized in Climbing Lightly Through Forests (Ursula K. Le Guin tribute poetry anthology). Her first poetry collection, Breakpoint, is a 2019 National Poetry Series Finalist and received the Patricia Bibby First Book Award. Breakpoint is forthcoming from Tebot Bach in 2022. You can find her tweeting at @baoki or contact her via her website at betsyaoki.com.