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Poet Bio: Heidi St. Jean received her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing/Poetry from Fairfield University, where she was selected as the recipient of its 2013 Academic Achievement Award for the M.F.A. program. She was poetry editor of Theodate, an online ekphrastic poetry journal. She also previously worked as managing editor for the literary journal Drunken Boat, and was one of two poetry editors for Mason's Road. Her poetry and essays have published in Spry; Rock & Sling; Afterimage: Inklight; The Lyon Review; The Barefoot Review; Long River Run; Mason's Road and Theodate. Her ekphrastic poem, "The Lawrence Tree," was selected as Third Prize winner in the 2013 Al Savard Memorial Poetry Contest, sponsored by the Connecticut Poetry Society. (The judge was Russell Strauss, past president of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies.) Her poem, "Surrealistic Dream of the Synesthete," won Honorable Mention in the Maine Media Workshop and College contest, displaying in Maine Media Gallery's "Dreams" exhibit during Spring 2014. Her poem, "Bobolink Song, En Plein Air," will be part of Ekphrasis V, an exhibit at the Bellarmine Museum, Fairfield, CT in 2017. She works professionally as a writer and editor.

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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.