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An old shepherd and his flock live alongside a high-tech laboratory for animal experimentation. Two worlds that are two sides of the same coin. While the shepherd, afflicted with a bone disease, witnesses his profession disappearing, scientists are busier than ever researching the COVID vaccine. Fauna explores the relationship between humans, animals and science in post-pandemic times.

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C. Rees

C. Rees (they/him) is a Pennsylvania-born ecopoet, writer, cultural worker, and New Writers Project alumnus living in Austin, TX. Their work excavates hauntings and landscapes, contamination and complicity, notions of emergence and knots of hybridity. His writing has appeared in Apocalypse Confidential, Territory, the Action Books Blog, Bat City Review, the Bellingham Review, and elsewhere. Their poem “Crossing” was chosen for the Poetry Society of America for the 2024 Cecil Hemley Memorial Award, and recently they were a resident at Willapa Bay AiR in May 2024. You can read their work at https://linktr.ee/c.rees.

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