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Vanessa Lillie
Cognoscenti contributor
Vanessa Lillie is the author of Rhode Island-set bestselling thrillers, wrote a weekly column in the Providence Journal about life during the pandemic, and hosts an Instagram Live show with authors. Vanessa is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma living on Narragansett land with her husband, third grade son and bossy pugapoo. Say hi on Facebook or Instagram.