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    Shelley Puhak is a poet and writer from Maryland. Her essays and articles have appeared in The Atlantic, Best American Travel Writing, Creative Nonfiction, The Iowa Review, and Salon. She is also the author of two award-winning books of poetry, the more recent of which is Guinevere in Baltimore.

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