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Original artwork by Emma Yamamoto

The Vault

Joe Baumann
Featured • Nonfiction
August 25, 2022
NiftyLit #3
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Essayist Joe Baumann's personal reminiscence on the complexities of admiration, perserverance, and identity through the lens of one historic vault.

Joe Baumann’s fiction and essays have appeared in Phantom Drift, Passages North, Emerson Review, and many others. He was a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow in Fiction. His debut short story collection, Sing With Me at the Edge of Paradise, was chosen as the inaugural winner of the Iron Horse/Texas Tech University Press First Book Award.

Emma Yamamoto is a first year Neurobiology student at the University of California, Davis and a local artist from Walnut Creek. Her work explores themes of identity, mental health, and sexuality, utilizing surrealistic and hyperrealistic techniques to break the stigma surrounding these themes through artwork. When she’s not drawing or painting, Emma is likely knitting, listening to Mitski, or working out in her home gym.

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