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Fiona Helmsley

Fiona Helmsley
Fiona Helmsley’s writing can be found (or is forthcoming) in various anthologies like Ladyland and The Best Sex Writing of the Year and online at websites like The Weeklings, Jezebel, The Hairpin, Hazlitt and The Rumpus. A multiple Pushcart nominee, her book of essays and stories, My Body Would be the Kindest of Strangers, was released in 2015.


Playing the “Bigly” Game: On Poverty and Shame in America

“It’s Not Whether you Win or Lose, it’s Whether You Win”
August 16, 2017  By Fiona Helmsley
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