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Jenny Grassl was raised in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in various journals, including Radar Poetry, Clarion, LIT, Ocean State Review, and Rogue Agent.
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