Originally published August, 2016

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Ali Shapiro is a graduate of the MFA program in poetry at the University of Michigan, where she currently teaches composition and creative writing. Her poems, reviews and comics can be found in RATTLE, Prairie Schooner, Redivider, Linebreak, PANK, Cutbank, The Rumpus and the Ploughshares blog. She’s the recipient of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, scholarships from the Fine Arts Work Center and the Vermont Studio Center, and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes in various denominations. 

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