Ailish Hopper is the author of the forthcoming Dark~Sky Society (New Issues, 2014), selected by David St. John as runner-up for the New Issues Poetry Prize, and a chapbook, Bird in the Head (Center for Book Arts, 2005), selected by Jean Valentine as the winner of the Center for Book Arts Poetry Chapbook Competition. Her poetry has appeared in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. She has received fellowships and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo. She teaches at Goucher College in Baltimore.  

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