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Mar/Apr 2021 • Vol. XLIII No. 2 • Nature’s Nature |

Dilemma

By Jane Huffman

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Jane Huffman
Jane Huffman has an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa, where she is currently an instructor for the Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY, The New Yorker, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. She is editor-in-chief of Guesthouse, a literary journal. Twitter @janechuffman

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