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Red Tide Warning

Living on Florida’s Gulf Coast means having to coexist with pervasive and toxic algal blooms—and neighbors who don’t always believe what they see

By Lenore Myka | March 4, 2024
In September 2018, thousands of fish killed by a toxic algal bloom were removed from. North Redington Beach, Florida. (Scott Keeler/Tampa Bay Times via Associated Press)
In September 2018, thousands of fish killed by a toxic algal bloom were removed from. North Redington Beach, Florida. (Scott Keeler/Tampa Bay Times via Associated Press)
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Lenore Myka’s work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Poets & Writers, New England Review, and other publications. The recipient of numerous awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship, she is currently at work on a memoir.

 

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