Angela Townsend is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, a seven-time Best of the Net nominee, and the 2024 winner of West Trade Review’s 704 Prize for Flash Fiction. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Arts & Letters, Chautauqua, The Disappointed Housewife, Epiphany, and the Indiana Review, among others. She graduated from Princeton Seminary and Vassar College and writes for a cat sanctuary.
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Angela Townsend recounts her own childhood fascination with politicians, embracing the clarity of a child’s innocent mind in its encounter with American poli…
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