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ABOUT THE WRITER:

Lauren M. Davis was born in New Jersey in 1988. She first studied creative writing on a National Student Exchange to the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Writing at Indiana University-Fort Wayne and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Southern Maine. She designed and taught Poetry Through Literacy, a curriculum of poetry for illiterate adults and has worked as an adjunct professor of English and humanities at the University of Saint Francis, Indiana Institute of Technology, and Ivy Tech Community College. She was the writer in residence of Hypatia in the Woods in Shelton, Washington, the keynote speaker for the NEI Poet’s Society, and has taught multiple community writing workshops. Her work has appeared in several literary magazines, journals, and an anthology. She is the author of two poetry collections, The Ekphrastic City and Women Bones. She currently lives in Indiana with her husband, their newborn daughter, and their beloved dog.