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Dana Koster has earned degrees from UC Berkeley and Cornell University. From 2011-2013, she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. Koster’s poems have appeared in EPOCH, Indiana Review, Southern Humanities Review, The Cincinnati Review, MUZZLE Magazine, PN Review, The Collagist and many others. She lives in Modesto, California with her husband and children.

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― Audre Lorde, The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism

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