Aaron Apps’ manuscript Dear Herculine (forthcoming from Ahsahta Press, 2015) won the 2014 Sawtooth Poetry Prize. His other collections include Compos(t) Mentis (BlazeVox, 2012) and Intersex: A Memoir (Tarpaulin Sky, 2014). His work has appeared in Pleiades, LIT, Washington Square Review, Puerto del Sol, The Los Angeles Review, and Carolina Quarterly, among others. Apps is pursuing a PhD in English literature at Brown University where he studies poetry and poetics, sexual somatechnics, animacy, and the history of intersex literature.  

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