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    Valencia Robin

    Oct 09, 2019 2 minutes

    Age: Over fifty. Residence: Charlottesville, Virginia. Book: Ridiculous Light (Persea Books, April 2019), winner of the 2018 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry, a collection that spans the arc of a life, from the poet’s childhood in Milwaukee to the personal and social experiences that shaped an adulthood marked by joy and tumult. Agent: None. Editor: Gabriel Fried.

    I CAME to writing through a love of story. Unfortunately

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