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becoming by Varun U. Shetty

December 13, 2022
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Varun U. Shetty
Varun U. Shetty is a writer and critical care physician. He grew up in Mumbai and lives with his partners in Shaker Heights, Ohio. His work has appeared in Hobart, Ayaskala, The Healing Muse, Complete Sentence, The Wire, Literary Cleveland’s online anthologies, Olney Magazine, and others. He won the F. Sean Hodge Prize for Poetry in Medicine by The Healing Muse in 2022.

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