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  <name><![CDATA[Liz Beasley]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Liz Beasley holds an MFA from Bowling Green State University and a PhD from the University of Georgia.  She recently relocated to Durham, NC and served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at North Carolina Central University in 2007-2008.  Currently she works for Duke University Press and teaches creative writing at NCCU.  

Her poems have appeared in a variety of journals, including Pleiades, Green Mountains Review, Arts &amp; Letters, Epoch, and Poetry.  Her first book, _How the Brain Grew Back Its Own History_, won the Bright Hill Press Poetry Award and is available from Bright Hill Press (brighthillpress.org) and Small Press Distribution (spdbooks.org).

  ]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[photography, Rilke, Dickinson, Plath]]></influences>  <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Louisville, KY</hometown>  <born_at>02/12/1976</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[How The Brain Grew Back Its Own History]]></title>
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  <published>2008</published>  
  
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