Starred Wire
Author Biography

Born in Philadelphia and a longtime New Yorker, Ange Mlinko has worked as a bookseller in Annapolis, a textbook editor in Boston, a librarian in Providence, and a technical writer on Wall Street. A former editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter, she has also taught at Brown, Naropa, and Al-Akhawayn University in Morocco. Mlinko is the author of two previous award-winning collections: Matinées, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, and Starred Wire, a National Poetry Series Award winner and James Laughlin Award finalist. She writes a regular column on language for The Nation, and in 2009, she received the Randall Jarrell Award for Criticism from the Poetry Foundation. She currently lives in Beirut.

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