Temim Fruchter is a queer nonbinary writer who was raised in a Modern Orthodox Jewish household. A 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award winner, she holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland and has received first prize in short fiction from both American Literary Review and New South. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Ropshitz, Poland, was once known as the City of Laughter. As this story opens, an 18th century badchan, a holy jester whose job is to make wedding guests laugh, receives a visitation from a mysterious stranger—bringing the laughter the people of Ropshit... SEE MORE