Frances Richey is the author of two poetry collections: The Warrior (Viking Penguin, 2008), and The Burning Point, (White Pine Press, 2004) which won the White Pine Poetry Prize in 2003, and the poetry chapbook, Voices of the Guard, (Clackamas Community College, 2010). Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, O, The Oprah Magazine, Plume, and Salamander, among others. She is the poetry editor for upstreet literary journal, and teaches an on-going poetry class for Himan Brown Seniors’ Program at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.  

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