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Fall 2011 • Vol. XXXIII No. 4 • Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize |

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By Emily Nason

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Emily Nason lives in Columbia, South Carolina, and is a senior creative writing student at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. She plans to study creative writing in college.

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