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Tennessee Hill

Tennessee Hill won the 2020 Porter House Review Editor’s Poetry Prize. She holds an MFA from North Carolina State University and was featured in Best New Poets 2018. Her work has appeared in Verse DailyIndiana ReviewCrab Orchard Review, and elsewhere. She is poetry editor for Gingerbread House Literary Magazine and teaches at Sam Houston State University.

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Photo by Emily Townsend

By Tennessee Hill

Column 921

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