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Nancy Chen Long the author of WIDER THAN THEN SKY (Diode Editions, 2020), which was selected for the Diode Editions Book Prize, and LIGHT INTO BODIES (University of Tampa Press, 2017), which won the Tampa Review Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship, and her work was selected for the Poetry Society of America Robert H. Winner Award. Her poems have been featured in Poetry Daily, Verse Daily and Indiana Humanities. She works at Indiana University in the Research Technologies division.

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	A Flame Called Indiana: An Anthology of Contemporary Hoosier Writing by Doug Paul Case (Editor), Kaveh Akbar (Contributor), Dason Anderson (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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