Pikes Peak Zine Fest

Pikes Peak Zine Fest Colorado Springs' annual zine fest! Est. 2019
Free admission small press event in October. PPZF 2025:
Saturday, October 18, 2025!

UCCS University Center - Berger Hall
1420 Austin Bluffs Pkwy, Colorado Springs, CO
(Enter campus on Meadow Ln)
1 - 5 pm

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02/02/2026

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✴️November Zine Club!✴️THANK YOU FOR A GREAT PIKES PEAK ZINE FEST 2025!Hope you can also make it to our last Zine Club o...
11/04/2025

✴️November Zine Club!✴️

THANK YOU FOR A GREAT PIKES PEAK ZINE FEST 2025!

Hope you can also make it to our last Zine Club of the year before we take a break for a few months! Join us in Meeting Room B of Sand Creek Library, Saturday (11/8) at 1 pm for free casual zine making and hangout! We'll have supplies, some freebie zines (including our Anthology), posters, & coloring pages to take home, and selections from our personal zine collections to peruse for inspiration.

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WHERE:
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PPLD Sand Creek Library - Meeting Room B
(1821 South Academy Blvd., Colorado Springs)
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WHEN:
Saturday, November 8, 2025
(1-3 pm)
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🔸🔷 ➡️ Maps ⬅️🔷🔸⁠Pikes Peak Zine Fest 2025 is tomorrow!Here's some additional maps & photos of the venue to help you find...
10/17/2025

🔸🔷 ➡️ Maps ⬅️🔷🔸⁠
Pikes Peak Zine Fest 2025 is tomorrow!
Here's some additional maps & photos of the venue to help you find Pikes Peak Zine Fest on University of Colorado - Colorado Springs (UCCS) campus. We'll again be at the University Center building in Berger Hall. Parking is free on Saturdays in lots 222 & 224, and public buses 9 & 34 have stops in front of UCCS.
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1️⃣ Photo of the UCCS sign at the entrance to campus
2️⃣ Basic map illustrating Austin Bluffs, free parking, & the venue building.
3️⃣ Basic map illustrating Austin Bluffs, bus stops, & the venue building.
4️⃣ Photo of Meadow Lanes traffic light where you should enter campus.
5️⃣ Photo of the entrance to lot 222 (with University Center in the background).
6️⃣ Photo of the colorful “Olympians and Paralympians Among Us” & University Center entrance. Use this sculpture to help orient yourself.
7️⃣ Photo of entrance to Lot 224 with University Center in the background. Do not enter the building here! Go back toward the Paralympics sculpture to the right for the easier entrance.
8️⃣ Basic map illustrating where Berger Hall is on the 2nd floor of University Center.
9️⃣ Photo of the entrance to Berger Hall (& University Center doors to/from 2nd level plaza).
🔟 Basic table map of our Exhibitors in Berger Hall!

See you soon!!! 👋⁠

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WHEN: Sat, October 18, 2025⁠
(1:00 pm - 5:00 pm MT)⁠⁠
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WHERE:⁠
UCCS's University Center - Berger Hall⁠
1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway⁠
Colorado Springs, CO⁠
⁠Enter Campus at the traffic lights on Meadow Ln.
🚙 Free parking in lots 222 & 224
🚌 Bus 9: UCCS Campus Stop (End of the Route)⁠
🚌 Bus 34: UCCS - Austin Bluffs/Meadow Lane or Austin Bluffs/Regent Stops⁠
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🆓 Free Entry & Family Friendly
😷⁠ Masks are HIGHLY encouraged, but not required. We will have free KN95s & hand sanitizer available at the door.⁠
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10/17/2025

🔸🔷 ➡️ Getting to Kraemer Family Library ⬅️🔷🔸⁠
Pikes Peak Zine Fest 2025 is tomorrow!⁠
Here's some video directions & photos of the venue to show you where our sponsor, UCCS's Kraemer Family Library, is located in University Center on the 2nd floor. Stop in for a quiet area to read, work on a zine, and be sure to check out their Zine Collection (Curated by Organizer Liz)!⁠
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FROM THE MAIN ENTRANCE: ⁠
🔸Just inside the doors of University Center, go up the stairs directly in front of the entrance, or take the elevator to the 2nd floor (to the right of the lobby & across from the info desk). ⁠
🔹Out of the elevator or at the top of the staircase, to your left is Kraemer Family Library!⁠
🔸The Zine Collection is on a vertical shelf near the comics & manga near the front of the library.⁠
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See you soon!!! 👋⁠
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WHEN: Sat, October 18, 2025⁠
(1:00 pm - 5:00 pm MT)⁠⁠
📓📙📘⁠
WHERE:⁠
UCCS's University Center - Berger Hall⁠
1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway⁠
Colorado Springs, CO⁠
⁠Enter Campus at the traffic lights on Meadow Ln.⁠
🚙 Free parking in lots 222 & 224⁠
🚌 Bus 9: UCCS Campus Stop (End of the Route)⁠
🚌 Bus 34: UCCS - Austin Bluffs/Meadow Lane or Austin Bluffs/Regent Stops⁠
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🆓 Free Entry & Family Friendly⁠
😷⁠ Masks are HIGHLY encouraged, but not required. We will have free KN95s & hand sanitizer available at the door.⁠
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10/17/2025

🔸🔷 ➡️ Finding the Gender Neutral Bathroom ⬅️🔷🔸⁠
Pikes Peak Zine Fest 2025 is tomorrow!⁠
Here's some video directions & photos of the venue to help you get to the Gender Neutral Bathroom at Pikes Peak Zine Fest on University of Colorado - Colorado Springs (UCCS) campus. ⁠
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FROM THE ENTRANCE OF PPZF (BERGER HALL): ⁠
🔸Across the hallway, by the big bulletin board, are an elevator to the left or stairs on the right.⁠
🔹Take either to go up a level to the 3rd Floor. ⁠
🔸Go down the hallway past the sitting area and the bathroom (& another water fountain) will be on the right.⁠
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See you soon!!! 👋⁠
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WHEN: Sat, October 18, 2025⁠
(1:00 pm - 5:00 pm MT)⁠⁠
📓📙📘⁠
WHERE:⁠
UCCS's University Center - Berger Hall⁠
1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway⁠
Colorado Springs, CO⁠
⁠Enter Campus at the traffic lights on Meadow Ln.⁠
🚙 Free parking in lots 222 & 224⁠
🚌 Bus 9: UCCS Campus Stop (End of the Route)⁠
🚌 Bus 34: UCCS - Austin Bluffs/Meadow Lane or Austin Bluffs/Regent Stops⁠
📓📙📘⁠
🆓 Free Entry & Family Friendly⁠
😷⁠ Masks are HIGHLY encouraged, but not required. We will have free KN95s & hand sanitizer available at the door.⁠
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Media Description: Video with audio/subtitle directions to the gender neutral bathrooms for PPZF.

10/17/2025

🔸🔷 ➡️ How to get here [Pt 2] ⬅️🔷🔸⁠
Pikes Peak Zine Fest 2025 is tomorrow!⁠
Here's some video directions of the venue to help you find Pikes Peak Zine Fest on University of Colorado - Colorado Springs (UCCS) campus. We'll again be at the University Center building in Berger Hall. Parking is free on Saturdays in lots 222 & 224, and public buses 9 & 34 have stops in front of UCCS.⁠
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Look for the colorful “Olympians and Paralympians Among Us” sculpture to help orient yourself. ⁠
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TO BERGER HALL FROM MAIN ENTRANCE: ⁠
🔹Enter the glass entrance for University Center (to the left of the sculpture if your back is to the parking lots). ⁠
🔸Just inside, you can either go up the stairs directly in front of the entrance, or take the elevator to the 2nd floor (to the right of the lobby & across the info desk). ⁠
🔹To get to Berger Hall from the frozen yogurt machine, go down the hallway to the right (past Big Cat Coffee). ⁠
🔸At the end of the hall is a ramp and a short staircase to the entrance of Berger Hall!⁠
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See you soon!!! 👋⁠
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📓📙📘⁠
WHEN: Sat, October 18, 2025⁠
(1:00 pm - 5:00 pm MT)⁠⁠
📓📙📘⁠
WHERE:⁠
UCCS's University Center - Berger Hall⁠
1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway⁠
Colorado Springs, CO⁠
⁠Enter Campus at the traffic lights on Meadow Ln.⁠
🚙 Free parking in lots 222 & 224⁠
🚌 Bus 9: UCCS Campus Stop (End of the Route)⁠
🚌 Bus 34: UCCS - Austin Bluffs/Meadow Lane or Austin Bluffs/Regent Stops⁠
📓📙📘⁠
🆓 Free Entry & Family Friendly⁠
😷⁠ Masks are HIGHLY encouraged, but not required. We will have free KN95s & hand sanitizer available at the door.⁠
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10/17/2025

🔸🔷 ➡️ How to get here ⬅️🔷🔸⁠
Pikes Peak Zine Fest 2025 is tomorrow!
Here's some video directions & photos of the venue to help you find Pikes Peak Zine Fest on University of Colorado - Colorado Springs (UCCS) campus. We'll again be at the University Center building in Berger Hall. Parking is free on Saturdays in lots 222 & 224, and public buses 9 & 34 have stops in front of UCCS.
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Look for the colorful “Olympians and Paralympians Among Us” sculpture to help orient yourself.

TO USE ELEVATOR OR INTERNAL STAIRS:
🔹Enter the glass entrance for University Center (to the left of the sculpture if your back is to the parking lots).

OR TO TAKE THE EXTERNAL STAIRS:
🔹Past the statue, go up the stairs to the 2nd level courtyard.
🔸Across the courtyard on the north west corner, will be the entrance to University Center your left putting you right in front of Berger Hall.

See you soon!!! 👋⁠

📓📙📘⁠
WHEN: Sat, October 18, 2025⁠
(1:00 pm - 5:00 pm MT)⁠⁠
📓📙📘⁠
WHERE:⁠
UCCS's University Center - Berger Hall⁠
1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway⁠
Colorado Springs, CO⁠
⁠Enter Campus at the traffic lights on Meadow Ln.
🚙 Free parking in lots 222 & 224
🚌 Bus 9: UCCS Campus Stop (End of the Route)⁠
🚌 Bus 34: UCCS - Austin Bluffs/Meadow Lane or Austin Bluffs/Regent Stops⁠
📓📙📘⁠
🆓 Free Entry & Family Friendly
😷⁠ Masks are HIGHLY encouraged, but not required. We will have free KN95s & hand sanitizer available at the door.⁠
📓📙📘⁠

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2️⃣ days until Pikes Peak Zine Fest!! 🤩That's all of this year's Exhibitors! Here's the table map to help you find wher...
10/16/2025

2️⃣ days until Pikes Peak Zine Fest!! 🤩
That's all of this year's Exhibitors!
Here's the table map to help you find where your favorite zinesters will be located!
bit.ly/PPZF2024FB
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✴️PIKES PEAK ZINE FEST 2025✴️
WHEN: Sat, October 18, 2025⁠
(1:00 pm - 5:00 pm MT)⁠⁠
📓📙📘⁠
WHERE:⁠
UCCS's University Center - Berger Hall⁠
1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway⁠
Colorado Springs, CO⁠
⁠Enter Campus at the traffic lights on Meadow Ln.
🚙 Free parking in lots 222 & 224
🚌 Bus 9: UCCS Campus Stop (End of the Route)⁠
🚌 Bus 34: UCCS - Austin Bluffs/Meadow Lane or Austin Bluffs/Regent Stops⁠
📓📙📘⁠
🆓 Free Entry & Family Friendly
😷⁠ Masks are HIGHLY encouraged, but not required. We will have free KN95s & hand sanitizer available at the door.⁠
📓📙📘⁠

2️⃣ days until Pikes Peak Zine Fest!! 🤩Check out this year’s Exhibitors! We've got 40+ awesome zinesters all participat...
10/16/2025

2️⃣ days until Pikes Peak Zine Fest!! 🤩
Check out this year’s Exhibitors! We've got 40+ awesome zinesters all participating in-person!!!
bit.ly/PPZF2025FB

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✴️SLOTH.CHAN / MARPIE ART✴️
marpieart.com
instagram.com/sloth.chan
🔹Denver, CO
🔸Bio: Still a sleepy science nerd out here trying to share the joy of biology to the masses.

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✴️STUMPT WORKSHOP✴️
stumptworkshop.com
instagram.com/stumptworkshop
🔹Fort Collins, CO
🔸Bio: Stumpt Workshop is a small riso print studio in Fort Collins, CO, creating prints and zines for anyone with a wild, brilliant idea.

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✴️SWAN D'EVE✴️
jackrabbitcherrybomb.com
instagram.com/tvxedobvnny
🔹Denver, CO
🔸Bio: Swan D’eve [he/they] is the pen name of a Denver-based designer and illustrator publishing the comic series Jackrabbit+Cherrybomb, a romance and adventure serial about jewel thieves in the 1970s.

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✴️UCCS KRAEMER FAMILY LIBRARY✴️
kfl.uccs.edu
instagram.com/uccslibrary
🔹Colorado Springs, CO
🔸Bio: Various UCCS departments will be showcasing their students' work. Also be sure to check out KFL's awesome zine collection brought to you by PPZF's Liz Brown!

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✴️WHOLESOME SHARK✴️
facebook.com/k.andersonwrites
instagram.com/k.andersonauthor
🔹Colorado Springs, CO
🔸Bio: We are a creative team of two with a passion for the silly, the serious, and the scientific.

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✴️WIG SHOP✴️
wigshopwebshop.com
instagram.com/wigshopwebshop
🔹Denver, CO
🔸Bio: Wig Shop is an online-only webshop that specializes in indie and self-published comic books, zines, art books and more. A publishing branch began in 2023 and Wig Shop has produced one book each year since.
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3️⃣ days until Pikes Peak Zine Fest!! 🤩Check out this year’s Exhibitors! We've got 40+ awesome zinesters all participat...
10/15/2025

3️⃣ days until Pikes Peak Zine Fest!! 🤩
Check out this year’s Exhibitors! We've got 40+ awesome zinesters all participating in-person!!!
bit.ly/PPZF2025FB

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✴️PEACHY KEEN PRESS✴️
twiceasfierce.com/peachykeenpress
instagram.com/peachykeenpress
🔹Orem, UT
🔸Bio: I’m an illustrator based in Utah! I make zines to share my thoughts about my big feelings and life’s little joys.

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✴️PRISMATIC CAVERN✴️
prismaticcavern.com
🔹Denver, CO
🔸Bio: I'm M. Yaxam, a cartoonist from Colorado working in the fantasy and funny animal genre of comics.

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✴️ROOT & BRANCH✴️
rootandbranchcomic.com
instagram.com/pinkilicious7
pinkilicious.itch.io
🔹Westcliffe, CO
🔸Bio: Hello! Iʼm Pink, the author and artist of Root & Branch, an epic fantasy adventure comic! I work in watercolors and ink, and in addition to making comics I love drawing RPG characters and beefcake.

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✴️SAMANTHA PUC✴️
theverbalthing.com
instagram.com/theverbalthing
bsky.app/profile/theverbalthing.com
🔹Longmont, CO
🔸Bio: Samantha Puc (she/they) is a fat, disabled, le***an writer and editor whose work focuses primarily on LGBTQ+ and fat representation in pop culture.

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✴️SHAWNASAUR ART✴️
shawnasaurart.squarespace.com
shawnasaurart.carrd.co
🔹Boulder, CO
🔸Bio: Shawna creates whimsical watercolors and illustrations of creatures, both real and fictional. Their work shows a deep love for nature, as well as a charming sense of humor.

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4️⃣ days until Pikes Peak Zine Fest!! 🤩Check out this year’s Exhibitors! We've got 40+ awesome zinesters all participat...
10/14/2025

4️⃣ days until Pikes Peak Zine Fest!! 🤩
Check out this year’s Exhibitors! We've got 40+ awesome zinesters all participating in-person!!!
bit.ly/PPZF2025FB

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✴️MERYL SAXTON✴️
merylsaxton.myportfolio.com
instagram.com/merylsaxton
🔹Woodland Park, CO
🔸Bio: "I'm a Colorado-based illustrator and graphic designer.
My work often centers around animals, fantasy, and combinations of the two.

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✴️MIDNITE LIBRARY✴️
midnitelibrary.itch.io
midnitelibrary.bsky.social
🔹Fort Collins, CO
🔸Bio: Anna Ferri & Matthew Murray 🦇 are academic librarians, co-hosts of Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcast, creators of many zines, & owners of two cats! Their home is filled with books and comics they haven't read yet.

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✴️NICO WILKINSON✴️
nicowilkinson.com
nicothepoet.substack.com
instagram.com/nicothepoet
🔹Colorado Springs, CO
🔸Bio: Nico Wilkinson (they/he) is a poet, organizer, and artist based out of Colorado Springs, CO. They are the organizer of Keep Colorado Springs Q***r and the author of the poetry collection The Weeds Grow Anyway.

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✴️THE OTÁROLA'S✴️
bellhoss.com
instagram.com/doingprettyok
instagram.com/bellhoss
🔹Denver, CO
🔸Bio: Becky Otárola makes music and visual things with paint and fabric. Becky made soft zines last year for PPZF and will have a new set of fabric zine for this year. Becky also enjoys making stuffies and may also bring some of those along as well.

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✴️PAUL K. TUNIS✴️
paulktunis.com
instagram.com/paulktunis
🔹Alamosa, CO
🔸Bio: Paul K. Tunis is a comics artist from the Sonoran Desert currently teaching at Adams State University.

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4️⃣ days until Pikes Peak Zine Fest!! 🤩⁠Check out this year’s Exhibitors! We’ve got 40+ awesome zinesters all participa...
10/14/2025

4️⃣ days until Pikes Peak Zine Fest!! 🤩⁠
Check out this year’s Exhibitors! We’ve got 40+ awesome zinesters all participating in-person!!!⁠
bit.ly/PPZF2025FB⁠
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✴️GUS BUS DRAWS✴️⁠
gusbus.space⁠
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gusbusdraws.bsky.social⁠
🔹Denver, CO⁠
🔸Bio: Gus is a scientist and zinester from Denver, CO. Much of his art explores science fiction themes, but he’s interested in using zines to communicate science nonfiction.⁠
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✴️HI-FI ANXIETY/GET ON BOARDMAN✴️⁠
getonboardman.com⁠
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🔹Pueblo, CO⁠
🔸Bio: Hi-Fi Anxiety is Jason Boardman’s main zine, which focuses on music and collecting. The majority of Boardman’s zines are interactive or feature interactive elements. Like Marshall McLuhan, Boardman believes that the medium is the message.⁠
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✴️JOEL THURMAN✴️⁠
worldofdisinter.com⁠
facebook.com/joel.thurman.395⁠
🔹Greeley, CO⁠
🔸Bio: Joel is a media studies doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado and specializes in comic book history. He writes his own comic books and has recently started turning his academic work into Zines. ⁠
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✴️KELS CHOO✴️⁠
kelschoo.com⁠
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🔹Colorado Springs, CO⁠
🔸Bio: Kelsey Choo is a Hawai’i-raised artist self-publishing comics, zines, and other art in Colorado. Working in a variety of mediums. their comics & illustrative works are inspired by nostalgia, feelings of home, monsters & magic. ⁠
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✴️MEGAN DE GUZMAN✴️⁠
megandeguzman.com⁠deguzman⁠
🔹Colorado Springs, CO⁠
🔸Bio: Megan de Guzman (she/her/hers) is a Filipina American poet based in Colorado Springs. More information about her work can be found at megandeguzman.com ⁠
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