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Corina Bardoff

@causeatiger.bsky.social

Writer, librarian. My story "Barbara Blue" won the 2025 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize. Writing most recently in TYPO, @northamerreview.bsky.social‬, @minorliteratures.bsky.social, and @exactingclam.bsky.social. She/her.

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Perfect rainy day book mail

Two books side by side: A Dictionary of Symbols by Juan Eduardo Cirlot and The Turnip Princess by Franz Xaver Von Schonwertg

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Assessing a collection for possible donation to my library. Love this book plate

Photo of a book plate with Art & Crafts style type that reads “Darby Library Company. Read Slowly/ Handle Carefully/ Return Promptly”

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Today at work I held the fossilized brain of an extinct horse creature

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Quite by accident, but also understandably, none of the books I have read this year have been written by Americans. Until I read these sly critical fictions of elfland by @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Procession of bluets in the moss

Photo of a forest scene: mossy path through trees, bordered by delicate, pale blue flowers

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Joy Williams on Rilke in the NYRB. She pulls out the most Joy Williams Rilke quotation www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

Screenshot of this pull quote: "How glorious…to ease oneself into the dog exactly at his center, the place out of which he exists as a dog, that place in him where God would, so to speak, have sat down for a moment when the dog was complete, in order to watch him at his first predicaments and notions and let him know with a nod that he was good."

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

The summer issue of @northamerreview.bsky.social is here and I am thrilled to have my story "Barbara Blue" out in the world!

Scan of a page in a magazine with information about the Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize

Scan of a two-page spread of a magazine. The left-hand page has an illustration of a possum hanging by its tail, reading a book. The right-hand page is the beginning of the story "Barbara Blue" by Corina Bardoff

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Nest found in the library parking lot near the woods. I think it's a house finch's. I think/hope the chicks fledged and everyone moved out before it fell out of the tree

Photograph of a hand holding out a bird's nest. The nest is cup shaped and twiggy, with bits of string and hair.

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This is a great issue of Clam, Exacting Clam. Especially enjoying the short fiction

Photograph of the spring 2025 issue of Exacting Clam. The salmon pink literary magazine is resting on an open dictionary

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I searched "gold purse" to get images for something I'm writing and I found this purse made out of a cane toad. It costs $490 and your coins come out of its butt

A coin purse made out of an actual cane toad covered in gold. Its eyes are downcast, and you can tell there is a zipper where the toad's butt used to be. The toad's legs have been removed.

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Dear Librarian, classify THIS! From my friend Angelo

The title page of a book called "Fuzz Against Smut: The Saga of the Anti-Smut Brigade." One of the book's authors has written an inscription: "Yeah, Librarian Bardoff: What section WOULD you put his in? Enjoy... I mean, dig, in the spirit in which it was intended to be digged. Regards, Angelo Pastormerlo"

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