Jacob Strautmann’s collection of poetry, The Land of the Dead is Open for Business, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2020. His work has appeared in AGNI, The Boston Globe, The Harlequin, and Salamander Magazine. He is the recipient of a 2018 Massachusetts Poetry Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Strautmann is a contributing editor for Salamander Magazine and the managing director of Boston Playwrights’ Theatre at Boston University, where he also teaches creative writing.  

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