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Wendy Mnookin is the author of five collections of poetry, including three from Boa Editions: The Moon Makes Its Own Plea (2008), What He Took (2002) and To Get Here (1999). She has received a Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and her books have won awards from the New England Poetry Club and the Massachusetts Center for the Book. She has taught poetry at Boston College, Emerson College, and Grub Street, as well as at varous workshop venues around the country. She currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and runs the Poetry Roundtable at the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement.  For more information about Wendy Mnookin, visit www.wendymnookin.com

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