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Jennifer Sweeney

Jennifer K. Sweeney is the author of three poetry collections: Little Spells, James Laughlin Award winner How to Live on Bread and Music, and Salt Memory. A Pushcart Prizewinner, her nonfiction has appeared in The Washington Post and Poetry International, and her poems have recently appeared in The Adroit Journal, The Awl, Rust+Moth, Stirring, Terrain, and Thrush. She lives with her family in Redlands, CA where she teaches privately and is finishing a memoir about being a volunteer in the remote town of Siberia, Indiana where she lived in an old convent on a farm, helping a Benedictine nun care for adults with severe disabilities. For more, visit www.jenniferksweeney.com.

MilestonesDecember 13, 2016

Metal and Shrine: A Becoming

By Jennifer Sweeney

SAN FRANCISCO Orange, she says. I am standing next to a punch bowl talking to my husband’s boss. We have told too many people…

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