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Winter 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 1 • Translation Folio |

Charm for Tumors (Remixed)

By Milena Williamson

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Milena Williamson has an MA and PhD in poetry from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast. Her debut pamphlet is Charm for Catching a Train (Green Bottle Press, 2022) and her debut poetry collection is Into the Night that Flies So Fast (Dedalus Press, 2024). She is a recipient of the Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in the UK.

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