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Christine Poreba is a poet who grew up in New York City and lived many years in North Florida where she taught English as a Second Language to adults. Her first book of poems, Rough Knowledge (Anhinga Press, 2015) won the Philip Levine Prize and her most recent collection This Eye is for Seeing Stars (Orison Books, 2025) was selected by Pádraig Ó Tuama for the Orison Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including The Pinch, Raleigh Review, The Sun Magazine, Southern Review, Subtropics, Western Humanities Review and Willow Springs. A graduate of Swarthmore College, she holds an M.S. Ed from Bank Street College of Education and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Florida. She lives with her family in the Chicago area and works in a public library.
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