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Kathi Crawford

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With a career spanning decades in organizational development, Kathi Crawford founded People Possibilities, LLC, in 2008. As a certified coach, she has supported hundreds of clients through leadership, career, and life transitions. Alongside her business career, she writes poetry and flash creative nonfiction. Her work has been featured online and in print in a variety of literary journals and anthologies. Her debut chapbook, consider the light, selected Best Entry in Finishing Line Press’s 2024 Open Chapbook Competition, and her latest chapbook, running with the beasts, are available from Finishing Line Press (https://finishinglinepress.com/?s=Kat...+). Connect with her on Instagram or LinkedIn @kathicrawford and subscribe to her blog at ht ...more

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Thank you to everyone who has already preordered running with the beasts, my second chapbook published by Finishing Line Press. I appreciate your support and look forward to hearing which poems and stories resonate with you once you’ve had a chance to read it. Preordering secures your copy, but as someone who likes to preorder b

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	consider the light it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soaked in Love: : A practical guide for new yoga teachers to move from awkward to amazing by Maria Merrill, Jessica Boyd, Kathi Crawford (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bayou Review Fall 2023 by Katie Cortes (editor), Stanley Freelon (editor), Rosmany Garcia (editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Poetry Project Summer 2017 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	A Flash in the Pan (and a few poems): Winter 2018 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Fire Within: Stories, Poems, and Essays of Women’s Resilience by WIVLA Organization, Denise Bossarte (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Celeste Budwit-Hunter it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Books of Jacob

by Olga Tokarczuk

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Abandon Me: Memoirs

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Scrap: Salvaging a Family: A Memoir in Flash

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Kathi’s Quotes

“It probably started in poetry; almost everything does.”
― Raymond Chandler

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“Consuming a piece of art is two biographies meeting: the biography of the artist that might disrupt the viewing of the art; the biography of the audience member that might shape the viewing of the art. This occurs in every case.”
― Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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“When you write about you and me? Just tell the truth. Your truth. Don’t worry about nobody’s feelings, especially not mine. You gotta be tough to tell your truth, but it’s the only thing worth doing next to loving somebody.”
― Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter

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“For the rest of my life, I would seek out the library the way some search for the soft light of a chapel in the dark.”
― Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter

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“She knows she'll never see him again in this or any life to come. Yet she sees him wherever she looks. That's life; the dead keep the living alive.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

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