Poetry save lives, even if sometimes just my own.

Poet Bio: Monica Prince is the 2017-2019 Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. She's the managing editor for the Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly, and the author of the chapbook, Letters from the Other Woman (Grey Book Press, 2018). Her work can be found in MadCap Review, Fourth & Sycamore, The Shade Journal, Texas's Best Emerging Poets, TRACK//FOUR, and others. Her choreopoem, How to Exterminate the Black Woman premiered as a full-length show in April 2018 in Selinsgrove, PA, where she teaches, writes, and performs.

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