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Sandra Meek is the author of four books of poems, most recently Road Scatter and Biogeography, winner of the Dorset Prize. Her fifth, An Ecology of Elsewhere, is forthcoming from Persea. Editor of Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad, which was awarded an Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal, her poems have appeared inThe American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry, and Conjunctions, among others. Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, two Georgia Author of the Year awards, and the Peace Corps Writers Award. She is a co-founding editor of Ninebark Press, director of the Georgia Poetry Circuit, poetry editor of the Phi Kappa Phi Forum, and Dana Professor of English, Rhetoric, and Writing at Berry College in Georgia, USA. Read more about her at http://www.sandrameek.com/.