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Mary Christine Delea, who goes by Christine, is a native of Long Island who, after living all over the U.S., now resides in Oregon. She has a Ph.D. in English from the University of North Dakota. Previous jobs include university professor, social worker, retail manager, AmeriCorps VISTA, and substitute teacher. Her web site has more information about her, as well as her C.V., list of all publications, links to some publications, poetry bingo, quotations she enjoys, a few of her poems, and a blog where she posts prompts and poems by others that she loves. She can also be found on Facebook, Threads, LinkedIn, and Instagram.

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