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Poet Bio: Andrew Rahal received a M.A in Creative Writing from Vanderbilt University and co-founded the Nashville Review. He currently serves as an Assistant Poetry Editor at Narrative Magazine. His poems have been published in Cobalt Review, Danse Macabre, Hawaii Review, Silk Road and elsewhere. He teaches for the Quileute Nation and Peninsula College. He surfs and lives with his wife, cat and dog in Forks, Washington.

Author Statement: I am on summer break from teaching right now. I teach full time for a tribal school as well as nights at the local college and prison in town during the school year. I have been teaching on this schedule the past 4+ years. Gwendolyn Brooks said poetry is life distilled. Needless to say, I have had very few distilled moments for some real productive writing to happen and I have only been quietly publishing since I left grad school. So with all that in mind, I'd take this opportunity to start a new writing project with the close attention and vigor it deserves. I'm going to consider this a stay at home writer's retreat. I also will be applying for PhDs in C/W this fall, so I hope some productive and useful work comes out of this experience.

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