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Emily Ransdell

Camas, Washington

Emily Ransdell earned her MFA from the University of Montana. Her poetry has appeared in Timberline Review and Prime Number Magazine and in Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry web series. The coordinator of the Manzanita PoetryFest, she divides her time between Camas, Washington, and the Oregon coast.

Column 803

Everywhere a River

By Emily Ransdell

Column 643

Bowling in Heaven