Athena Dixon is the author of The Loneliness Files (Tin House Books 2023) and The Incredible Shrinking Woman (Split/Lip Press 2020). Her work is also included in the anthology The Breakbeat Poets Vol.2: Black Girl Magic and her craft work appears in Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction. She writes, edits, and resides in Philadelphia.

A country block from our Noble Street home, Ralph’s Deli had always been. The store was the epicenter of our side of the tracks. A low-income neighborhood not too far

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