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- ↑ "The Believer Book Awards Go to Trisha Low and Deborah Landau by Harriet Staff". Poetry Foundation. December 9, 2022. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
- ↑ "Samra Habib among winners of 2020 Lambda Literary Awards". CBC.ca. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
- ↑ "Trisha Low, Author". Open Space SFMOMA. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
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