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Thank you so much, Bojan,
for your descriptions,

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and information
about the anthology,

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and also reading the work of
some really amazing poets.

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So thank you so much.

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We're now going to go on
to our next reader, who

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is Jennifer Elise Foerster.

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Jennifer Elise Foerster
received her PhD

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in English and literary arts
at the University of Denver,

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her MFA from the Vermont
College of Fine Arts,

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and is an alumna of the
Institute for American Indian

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Arts, IAIA, in Santa
Fe, New Mexico.

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She's received an NEA creative
writing fellowship, a Lannan

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Foundation writing
residency fellowship,

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a grant from the
Aninstantia Foundation,

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and was a Wallace Stegner
fellow in poetry at Stanford.

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Jennifer is the
author of two books

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of poetry, Leaving
Tulsa, 2013, and Bright

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Raft in the Afterweather, 2018.

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Both published by the
University of Arizona Press.

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She teaches for the IAIA MFA
in creative writing program,

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and the Rainier
Writing Workshop,

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and serves as a
literary assistant

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to the US Poet
Laureate Joy Harjo.

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The daughter of an
Air Force diplomat,

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Foerster grew up
living internationally,

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is of European, German,
Dutch, Mvskoke descent,

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and is a member of the Muscogee
Creek Nation of Oklahoma.

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She lives in San Francisco.

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Thank you, Jennifer, for
being here with us today.

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And I just want to welcome
you with just an open heart.