Robyn Richey Piz published nonfiction in Shadowbox magazine, was a winner of the National Writers’ Association Novel contest, and was named a finalist in the 2012 Fourth Genre Steinberg Essay Prize for this essay, “Altered State.” Robyn died earlier this year after a long battle with kidney disease.---------
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