Carson Vaughan is a freelance journalist and the author of Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of An American Dream. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Outside, Smithsonian, The Atlantic and more. A native of Broken Bow, Nebraska, he now lives with his wife and dog in Chicago.
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