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Jeanann Verlee is the author of three books: prey, Said the Manic to the Muse, and award-winning Racing Hummingbirds. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, the Third Coast Poetry Prize, and the Sandy Crimmins National Prize. Her poems and essays appear in Academy of American Poets, Adroit, Muzzle and THRUSH, among others. She served as poetry editor for Winter Tangerine Review and Union Station, and has edited several award-winning books. She collects tattoos, kisses Rottweilers, and believes in you. Find her at jeanannverlee.com.

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