Dan Albergotti’s poems have appeared in Ascent, Meridian, Mid-American Review, New Orleans Review, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review, and other journals, and are forthcoming in The Southern Review and the anthology The Best New Poets 2005. He has received scholarships from the Sewanee and Bread Loaf writers’ conferences, as well as a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His chapbook Charon’s Manifest was selected by Thom Ward as the winner of the 2005 Randall Jarrell/Harperprints Poetry Chapbook Competition. A graduate of the MFA program at UNC Greensboro and former poetry editor of The Greensboro Review, he currently serves as associate poetry editor of the online journal storySouth and teaches in the English department of Coastal Carolina University.  

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