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Jennifer R. Edwards’ full-length debut collection, Unsymmetrical Body (Finishing Line Press, 2022), is a 2023 Eric Hoffer First Horizon Finalist. She won the 2022 New England Poetry Club Amy Lowell Prize (selected by Moira Linehan) and was honorably mentioned in 2020 (selected by Dzvinia Orlowsky). Her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart. She was Thomas Lux Poetry Fellow at Palm Beach Poetry Festival and received support from Colgate Writers and VCFA Postgraduate Writers' Conference (2023). Her poems appear in literary magazines including Emerge Literary Journal, Mom Egg Review, One Art, Gyroscope Review, Passengers Journal, Terrain, Literary Mama, Snapdragon, Tiny Spoon, The Racket, Remington Review, FreezeRay Poetry, Ekphrastic Review, and the anthologies Smoky Quartz: Tenth Anniversary Anthology (Monadnock Writers’ Group, 2022) and COVID Spring: Granite State Pandemic Poems (Hobblebush Press, 2020). She’s an educator and preschool speech-language pathologist in Concord, NH, residing with her family and pug. See her work and get in touch at https://linktr.ee/JenEdwards, Twitter @Jennife00420145, Instagram Jenedwards8, and https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/jennifer_r_edwards