Friday, January 19, 2024: Janis Butler Holm's 'Alien Transport"

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 Janis Butler Holm served as associate editor for Wide Angle, the film journal, and currently works as a writer and editor in sunny Los Angeles. Her prose, poems, art, and performance pieces have appeared in small press, national, and international magazines. Her plays have been produced in the U.S., Canada, Russia, and the U.K.





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