You are listening to a Clarksworld magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings, Clarksville citizens, and welcome to the fourth story for the month of November,

issue 218.

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from the bottom of my heart. Our fourth story is titled Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being.

It is by A.W. Prehandita.

Anselma Wida Prijandita, she, her, is an Indonesian speculative fiction writer,

college writing instructor and PhD candidate in rhetoric and composition, with scholarly and personal

interests in decolonial and transnational writing. She spends her time between the U.S. West Coast,

where she currently teaches and studies, and Indonesia, where she grew up and where her home remains.

She attended the Odyssey Workshop in 2023 on their Fresh Voices scholarship

and the Clarion Workshop in 2024 on their Octavia Butler scholarship.

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