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Sandra Simonds grew up in Los Angeles, California. She earned a BA in Psychology and Creative Writing at UCLA and an MFA from the University of Montana, where she received a poetry fellowship. In 2010, she earned a PhD in Literature from Florida State University. She is the author of Mother was a Tragic Girl (Cleveland State University Press, 2012) and Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2008), which was a finalist for numerous prizes including the National Poetry Series. Her poems have been published in many journals including Poetry, The Believer, The American Poetry Review, Fence, Columbia Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Black Warrior Review, and Lana Turner. You can read some of her poetry online here, here, and here. She currently lives in Tallahassee, Florida, and is an Assistant Professor of English at Thomas University in beautiful, rural Southern Georgia. {MORE}

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