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My Book "About" Abortion + a Shameless, Scarlet Letter Prompt

It’s been over a decade since my first book Samsara won the Noemi Press Poetry Prize. It took a decade to write and publish it; hundreds of dollars on contest submissions, over 100k in student loans; resistance to rejection, poverty, cruelty; gallons of blood, sweat, and tears. My holy grail was a tenure-track job.

Shortly after graduating from my Ph.D.…