Erica X Eisen’s work has appeared in AGNI, n+1, Threepenny Review, The Baffler, the Washington Post, the Harvard Review, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
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Judging an English Olympiad in Kyrgyzstan, the authorwitnessesher native tongue “being sliced and slivered like a summer melon” while the heart of…