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Chelsea Rathburn

Young Harris, Georgia

Chelsea Rathburn is the author of A Raft of Grief (2013) and The Shifting Line (2005). She received an NEA fellowship in poetry in 2009. She lives in Georgia.

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Chelsea Rathburn

By Chelsea Rathburn

Column 467

After Filing for Divorce