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My first fiction publication of 2022 is in the legendary environmental publication Terrain. I wrote the first draft of my short story “In This Country” in 2013, when I was 26 and my firstborn was almost one. I polished and finished it last year and would love it if you guys would give it a […]

I am thrilled to have a creative non-fiction piece of mine published in Issue 36 of Cleaver Magazine. I would appreciate a read of this very personal piece about about my experience with addiction: https://www.cleavermagazine.com/reflections-by-virginia-petrucci/ I include, as a fond and whimsical embarrassment, a picture of myself shortly before I got clean almost a decade ago: