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Nicola Waldron is a graduate of Cambridge University and teaches creative writing at the University of South Carolina. She is the recipient of the United Kingdom’s Bridport Poetry Prize, and her work has been featured in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review and Her Kind. Her poetry chapbook, Girl at the Watershed, will be published in 2012 by the University of South Carolina’s S.C. Poetry Initiative. She is a graduate student in the Bennington Writing Seminars and is at work on a memoir.

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