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Sarah Appleton Pine

Sarah Appleton Pine

Sarah Appleton Pine earned her MFA from Western Washington University and currently teaches at Cranbrook Kingswood School. Her work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, the Rumpus, Ploughshares Blog, theLos Angeles Review, and Grist. Her current projects circle around the issues that bind her family together: addiction, adoption, mental illness, and gender. You can find her on Twitter @sarahkapples.