francine j. harris
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Poet francine j. harris grew up in Detroit, MI and is currently in Ann Arbor on a Zell Postgraduate Creative Writing Fellowship. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2011. Her first collection, allegiance, is part of the Made in Michigan series on Wayne State University Press (February 2012). She is a Cave Canem and Callaloo fellow with work appearing in in McSween
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Javier Zamora
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Javier Zamora was born and raised in La Herradura, La Paz, El Salvador. At the age of nine he immigrated to the Yunaited Estais to be reunited with his parents. He attends UC Berkeley, majoring in Latin American history and minoring in creative writing. In summer 2011, he attended the Frost Place, Southampton, and Napa Valley writer’s conferences as a scholarship student. In 2010 he was a Breadloaf waiter and a
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Jamaal May
Jamaal May is the author of two chapbooks, The God Engine and The Whetting of Teeth. He has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo, and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. A graduate from Warren Wilson’s MFA program, Jamaal is a two-time finalist for the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, a two-time Individual World Poetry Slam finalist, and three-time Rustbelt Poetry Slam Champion, with poems appearing in Cal
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