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This poem is from the chapbook Long For This World by Emily W. Pease WINNER OF THE NEW WOMEN’S VOICES PRIZE IN POETRY (Finishing Line Press) and can be found at https://finishinglinepress.com/product/long-for-this-world-by-emily-w-pease-winner-nwvs-192/
Emily W. Pease is a poet and fiction writer who lives in Williamsburg, VA, where she has taught writing at William & Mary. She is the 2025 winner of the William Matthews Poetry Prize at the Asheville Poetry Review and the 2025 winner of the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize. Her poems appear in Juniper, Litmosphere, One, The Florida Review, and Rattle. Her collection of short stories, Let Me Out Here, won the C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Award at Hub City Press in 2018. She holds an MFA from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.
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