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Barbara Duffey is a 2015 NEA Literature Fellow in poetry. She is the author of the poetry collections I Might Be Mistaken (Word Poetry, 2015) and Simple Machines (The Word Works, 2016), which won the 2015 Washington Prize, and the chapbooks "The Circus of Forgetting" (dancing girl press, 2013) and "The Verge of Thirst" (South Dakota State Poetry Society, 2013). An associate professor of English at Dakota Wesleyan University, her poetry has been published in Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, Best New Poets 2009, and elsewhere, and her nonfiction has appeared in CutBank, The Collagist, and the anthology Oh, Baby! from Creative Nonfiction. Her story "And All Not Long We Have Not Stirred" appeared in the Exigencies anthology from Dark House Pre ...more

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	Exigencies by Richard Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Chuck Wendig (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Luke Spooner (Illustrations) 4.18 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2015	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
	The Circus of Forgetting 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2013	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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	Four Quarters to a Section: An Anthology of South Dakota Poets Selected in the South Dakota State Poetry Society 2013 Manuscript Competition by Rosemary Dunn Moeller (Editor & Contributor), Lawrence J. Diggs (Editor & Illustrator), Dave Diamond (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013 — 2 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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