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Moderated by </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:'Merriweather',Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif">Donika Kelly</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:'Merriweather',Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif">, author of </span></span><em><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:'Merriweather',Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif">The Renunciations</span></span></em><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:'Merriweather',Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif"> and </span></span><em><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:'Merriweather',Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif">Bestiary</span></span></em><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:'Merriweather',Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif">.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:'Merriweather',Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif">Limited free copies of</span></span><em><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:'Merriweather',Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif"> Meltwater</span></span></em><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:'Merriweather',Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif"> will be available at the event, first come, first served. 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A 2020 McKnight Writer Fellow, and the winner of the 2022 Montreal International Poetry Prize, she lives in the Twin Cities.</span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:'Neue Plak',-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif">Donika Kelly</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:'Neue Plak',-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"> is the author of </span></span><em><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:'Neue Plak',-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif">The Renunciations</span></span></em><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:'Neue Plak',-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif">, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and </span></span><em><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:'Neue Plak',-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif">Bestiary</span></span></em><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:'Neue Plak',-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif">, the winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and a founding member of the collective Poets at the End of the World. Her poems have been published in </span></span><em><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:'Neue Plak',-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif">The New Yorker</span></span></em><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:'Neue Plak',-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif">, </span></span><em><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:'Neue Plak',-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif">The Atlantic</span></span></em><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:'Neue Plak',-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif">, </span></span><em><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:'Neue Plak',-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif">The Paris Review</span></span></em><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:'Neue Plak',-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif">, and elsewhere. She is an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Iowa.</span></span><br><span style="font-size:12px">Want to change how you receive these emails?</span><br><span style="font-size:12px">You can </span><a><span style="font-size:12px">update your preferences</span></a><span style="font-size:12px"> or </span><a><span style="font-size:12px">unsubscribe</span></a></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="center" id="m_1617526237046883378m_6133251901503032923blockContainerId--2"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="background-position:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:cover;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="24" width="100%" role="presentation"><tbody></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>
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