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Kelly Hoffer (@kellyrosehoffer) is a poet and book artist. Her debut collection of poems UNDERSHORE (2023) was selected by Diana Khoi Nguyen as the winner of the Lightscatter Press Prize. Her book manuscript Fire Series was a finalist for the 2021 National Poetry Series and the Georgia Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, American Chordata, TAGVVERK, and Chicago Review, among others. Her essays and criticism have appeared in Jacket2, Cultural Critique, Inscription, and The Henry James Review. She currently teaches in the MFA program at the University of Michigan as the Helen Zell Visiting Professor of Poetry. Learn more at: https://www.kellyrosehoffer.com/