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I’ve Got the Love Handles, but I Can’t Handle Love

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Tanja Van Deer sees life as a deep-fried surrealist dream wrapped in bacon. Tanja finds it uncomfortable referring to herself in the third person but will suspend her discomfort for the sake of this bio. Her work is a playground for the verbal, the visual and the visceral. Thought provoking and provocative, she likes to conjure the unusual from the mundane. She lets her imagination run on a long-leash and can often be found making art out of food scraps, decapitated troll dolls and other such oddities.

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I’ve Got the Love Handles, but I Can’t Handle Love

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"I've Got the Love Handles, But I Can't Handle Love" by Tanja Van Deer
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Tanja Van Deer sees life as a deep-fried surrealist dream wrapped in bacon. Tanja finds it uncomfortable referring to herself in the third person but will suspend her discomfort for the sake of this bio. Her work is a playground for the verbal, the visual and the visceral. Thought provoking and provocative, she likes to conjure the unusual from the mundane. She lets her imagination run on a long-leash and can often be found making art out of food scraps, decapitated troll dolls and other such oddities.

Rima Rantisi is an essayist, lecturer at the American University of Beirut, and the founding editor of Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal. Her essays can be found in the New England Review, Literary Hub, Slag Glass City, Rusted Radishes, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has received literary fellowships from Art Omi, Headlands Center for the Arts, Monson Arts, and Hedgebrook. She is at work on a collection of essays on writing and the liminal spaces residing at the junctions of motherhood/land, fractured histories, and writing.