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Christopher Ankney

Christopher Ankney’s first collection, Hearsay, won the 2014 Jean Feldman Prize and was a finalist for the 2015 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Gulf Coast, Fourteen Hills, Hunger Mountain, Prairie Schooner, and Tupelo Quarterly, amongst other fine journals.

Articles

Poetry
The wind erodes our cheeks like limestone, awakes us
to our run. There is more than one way to see ourselves
in the Sphinx.
Christopher Ankney

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