Kerry Howley on the State vs. MMA

Contributing Editor Kerry
Howley is an assistant professor of creative writing at the
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her first book, publishing
today, is Thrown
(Sarabande) in which she follows the lives of two professional
mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters over the course of several years.
Publishers Weekly
says “Howley’s brilliant prose is as dexterous and doughty as
the fighters she trails.” Here Howley lists three ways that state
authorities have tried, and failed, to shut down the sport

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