Nancy Bell

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Nancy Bell lives in St. Louis, Missouri, where she writes, makes theatre, and teaches at St. Louis University. Her work appears or is forthcoming in StoryQuarterly, Terrain, North American Review, Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in acting and directing from California State University at Long Beach and is working on a second one in creative writing at Mississippi University for Women. She is not above hugging trees, or thanking them out loud.

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Nancy Bell  | 
Issue 75.1 Fall 2025

I give her privacy back there, for the work she must do, which should be happening in the dark of the earth.