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Amanda Auerbach is currently a PhD candidate in English at Harvard. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Paris Review, The Colorado Review, Fence, The Kenyon Review, Denver Quarterly, Web Conjunctions, Poetry Northwest, and Thrush Poetry Journal.
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