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Erin Stoodley is a poet from California, pursuing their MFA at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Their recent work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the AWP Intro Journals Project Award. Currently, they split their time between Champaign and Chicago, accompanied by their quietly ferocious cat, Minky.