Beth Ann Fennelly was a United States Artist Fellow in 2006. She has been included three times in The Best American Poetry series and is a Pushcart Prize winner (2001). W.W. Norton is scheduled to publish her third book of poems, Unmentionables, in April 2008. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Wisconsin, Fennelly is an assistant professor of English at the University of Mississippi and lives in Oxford. 

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