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  <name><![CDATA[Louise Mathias]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Louise Mathias was born in 1975 in Bedford, England, and grew up in a small village in Suffolk, England, and later, Los Angeles.  Her first book, Lark Apprentice, won the 2003 New Issues Poetry Prize and was published in 2004 by New Issues Press. A chapbook, Above All Else, the Trembling Resembles a Forest, was selected by Martha Ronk for the Burnside Review Chapbook contest, and is forthcoming in early 2010. Poems have appeared in journals such as Denver Quarterly, Triquarterly, Massachusetts Review, Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, Hunger Mountain, Epoch, SHADE, The Journal, Green Mountains Review, Slope, Verse Daily, and many others.  She is the recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, The Atlanta Review, and The Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. She currently lives in Joshua Tree, California.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Louise Gluck, CD Wright, Philip Larkin, Linda Gregg, Brenda Hillman]]></influences>      <born_at>02/08/1975</born_at>    
  
  
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