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Poet Bio: Felicia Zamora is the author of the book Of Form & Gather, winner of the 2016 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize from University of Notre Dame Press (2017). She won the 2015 Tomaž Šalamun Prize from Verse, and authored the chapbooks Imbibe {et alia} here (Dancing Girl Press 2016) and Moby-Dick Made Me Do It (2010). Her published works may be found or forthcoming in Columbia Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, Hotel Amerika, Indiana Review, Meridian, North American Review, Phoebe, Pleiades, Poetry Daily, Poetry Northwest, Puerto del Sol, Tarpaulin Sky Magazine, The Adirondack Review; The Cincinnati Review, The Michigan Quarterly, The Normal School, TriQuarterly Review, Verse Daily, Witness Magazine, West Branch, and others. She is an associate poetry editor for the Colorado Review and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Colorado State University. She lives in Colorado with her partner, Chris, and their two dogs, Howser and Lorca.

Author Statement: Since graduating with my MFA in 2012, my goal has been to write a poetry manuscript a year. What a challenging and rewarding four years! This August, I just finished my fifth manuscript of poems entitled, Galaxy Inside Your Inadequately Small Heart, three months ahead of schedule! I am ready for a new challenge and the 30/30 Project will allow me to keep the momentum of writing as a daily practice going. I love writing in limits…limits of the line, of poetic form, and of time. Limits allow us to ignore writer's block and gently sweep creativity back into the equation as the star component. Poetry is a fine line between love, obsession, and need. I never quite know which one brings me to the page. The importance lies in bringing myself to the page and trusting that whatever evolves was needed. Sometimes, getting to the page is the hardest part. Once there, the journey beings and so does the opportunity to learn about myself with each poem that manifests. With this commitment, I am allowing myself to trust the process, gain encouragement from my loved ones, and be open to what organically emerges from this daily dedication to poetry. To my friends and family who read this…thank you for your support of my writing, poetry, and Tupelo Press! Loves!

Your support gives me vital inspiration as I write for thirty days this month.

Tupelo Press provides the canvas, I bring my words, accompanied by other fine poets, writing thirty poems in thirty days, all ours to edit and submit as we wish. 30/30 poems have been taken by over 90 journals and featured in over 40 published chapbooks, all so Tupelo Press can keep publishing exquisite and diverse voices that might never be heard otherwise.

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