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Paul Cunningham co-manages Action Books. He is the author of Brillo (forthcoming from Lavender Ink), Sociocide at the 24/7 (DIAGRAM, 2025), and two titles from Schism Press: Fall Garment (2022) and The House of the Tree of Sores (2020). He is one of seven collaborators in Katrine Øgaard Jensen’s Ancient Algorithms (Sarabande Books, 2025). His translation of Sara Tuss Efrik’s play Danse Macabre Piggies was anthologized in Experimental Writing: A Guidebook and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2024). Cunningham currently manages the MFA in Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame where he also teaches.

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Raffaele Mainella, “plate from Nos invisibles” from Nos invisibles. by Charles d’Orino. Paris: Bibliothèque Chacornac, 1907. Available at: https://www.archive.org