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Summer 2024 • Vol. XLVI No. 3 • Nature's Nature |

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By Susan Barba

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Susan Barba is the editor of American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide (Abrams Books, 2022), winner of the 2023 American Horticultural Society Book Award, and the author of Fair Sun (Godine, 2017) and geode (Black Sparrow Press, 2020), a finalist for the New England Book Awards and the Massachusetts Book Awards. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, and her poems have been translated into Armenian, German, Romanian, and Swedish. She works as a senior editor for the New York Review Books.

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