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  <name><![CDATA[Kristina Marie Darling]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Kristina Marie Darling is a graduate of Washington University, where she received both an undergraduate degree in English and a master's degree in American Culture Studies.  Ten small press collections of her work have been published, among them Fevers and Clocks (March Street Press, 2006), The Traffic in Women (Dancing Girl Press, 2006), Night Music (BlazeVox Books, 2008), and Strange Gospels (Maverick Duck Press, 2008), which was selected for the &quot;New Voices&quot; feature in Ploughshares Magazine.  A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her poems appear in such journals as Gargoyle, Miller's Pond, Illya's Honey, Big City Lit, and Janus Head: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies.  Her essays and book reviews have also been published or are forthcoming in The Gettysburg Review, The Boston Review, New Letters, The Colorado Review, Shenandoah, and other periodicals.  Awards include residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Centrum Foundation, the Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, and the Prairie Center of the Arts, as well as scholarships from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the Ropewalk Writers Retreat.  She currently studies philosophy at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and hopes to pursue a doctorate in English literature.]]></about>        <born_at>04/24/1985</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Strange Machine]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Night Music]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[an abridged version for the modern reader]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Opera: Prose Poems]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Strange Gospels]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[House of Mirrors: Poetry by Kristina Marie Darling]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Fevers and Clocks]]></title>
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