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Jeanann Verlee is author of two books, Said the Manic to the Muse and Racing Hummingbirds, which earned the Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal for poetry. She has also been awarded theThird Coast Poetry Prize and the Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry. Her work appears in Adroit, Rattle, The Journal, andBuzzFeed Reader, among others. Verlee served as poetry editor for Union Station Magazine, For Some Time Now,and Winter Tangerine Review: Fragmentsof Persephone, as well as a number of individual collections. She is former director of the Urbana Poetry Slam reading series where sheserved as writing and performance coach, and she performs and facilitates workshops at schools, theatres, libraries, bookstores, and dive bars across North America. Verlee wears polka dots and kisses Rottweilers. She believes in you. Find her at jeanannverlee.com.
