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  <name><![CDATA[Ned Balbo]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Ned Balbo’s &lt;i&gt;Lives of the Sleepers&lt;/i&gt; (University of Notre Dame Press), received the Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize, a &lt;i&gt;ForeWord&lt;/i&gt; magazine Book of the Year Award in poetry, and was a finalist for the Arlin G. Meyer Prize of the Lilly fellows program. His first collection, &lt;i&gt;Galileo’s Banquet&lt;/i&gt;, was awarded the Towson University Prize.  The recipient of three Maryland Arts Council  grants, he has received the Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award and the John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize.  &quot;My Father's Music,&quot; an essay on adoptive identity and ethnicity, and a finalist for both the Faulkner/Wisdom award and the Laura Pizer Prize, appears in &lt;i&gt;Creative Nonfiction&lt;/i&gt;'s anthology of Italian-American prose, &lt;i&gt;Our Roots Are Deep with Passion&lt;/i&gt; (Lee Gutkind and Joanna Clapps Herman, editors). His most recent collection is the chapbook &lt;i&gt;Something Must Happen&lt;/i&gt; (Finishing Line Press). A Long Island native, he lives in Baltimore with his wife, poet-essayist Jane Satterfield, and her daughter Catherine.

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  <title><![CDATA[Lives Of The Sleepers]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Something Must Happen]]></title>
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