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May 2025

Mississippi Native: Grace Greene
"I love Jackson—it’s a place worth fighting for."
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Mississippi Expat: Robert Busby
"Being raised in rural Mississippi can come with its traumas, but it also gave me a unique specificity and sensory experience that informs so much of…
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Mississippi Transplant: Kendall Dunkelberg
"I don’t know that I would call it a sense of duty that keeps me rooted in Mississippi, but more a sense of discovery and a sense of purpose."
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Mississippi Expat: Tabitha Agany
"Mississippi will always hold a special place in my heart—it is where my American journey began."
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April 2025

Mississippi Native: Bebe Wolf
"Home for me has always meant this place where I grew up. And the fact that it's in Mississippi is kind of an accident."
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Mississippi Expat: Nicole Marquez
"The arts education I received in Mississippi paved the way to all the major accomplishments I’ve had outside the state."
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Mississippi Expat: Natalie Ford
"You can take the girl out of the South, but not the South out of the girl. I am letting it be more present in my identity now."
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Mississippi Native: Roderick Red
"Mississippi forces you to see the world for what it really is: layered, complicated, and often contradictory."
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Mississippi Transplant: Olivia Clare Friedman
"There’s something about my feeling at home in Mississippi that’s allowed me to do all of that—to write about where I was years ago, where I imagine I…
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March 2025

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