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This selection comes from Michelle Lewis ’s poetry collection Animul/Flame, available from Conduit Books & Ephemera . Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Karen Craigo.
Michelle Lewis of West Bath, Maine has worked as a writer, editor, teacher, and digital marketer. Michelle is the recipient of the 2018 Marystina Stantiestevan First Book Prize. Her poetry, reviews, and essays have been published in numerous literary journals, and her poetry has been collected in two previous chapbooks, The Desire Line (Moon Pie Press) and Who Will Be Frenchy? (dancing girl press). Lewis earned her M.F.A. from the Stonecoast Program in Creative Writing. She is a contributing writer for Anomaly. You can find out more about her at whitechicken.com.
Karen Craigo is the author of two Sundress titles: Passing Through Humansville (2018) and No More Milk (2016). She is a newspaper editor in Marshfield, Missouri.
