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Kelly Michels received her PhD from University College Dublin. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Stinging Fly, Banshee Lit, Tampa Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Poet Lore, Third Coast, Best New Poets, New Ohio Review, among others. She is the author of two pamphlets: Mother and Child with Flowers (2012) and Disquiet (2015). Her poetry has received the Rachel Wetzsteon Poetry Prize from 92nd Street Y, the Spoon River Poetry Review Editor’s Prize, the Robert Watson Literary Prize from Greensboro Review, and an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her first collection, American Anthem, is published by The Gallery Press. She lives in Dublin.

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