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Samantha Kolber has a chapbook “Birth of a Daughter” (Kelsay Books, 2020) winner of a 2021 Human Relations Indie Book Award in Realistic Poetry and the 2023 San Francisco Book Festival Winner in Poetry. She received her MFA from Goddard College and completed post-grad work at Pine Manor College’s Solstice MFA Program. She lives in Vermont, where she runs an indie press, Rootstock Publishing. Listen to select poems, including “Birth of a Daughter,” at her website.

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