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Jen Town

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Jen Town’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Mid-American Review, Cimarron Review, Epoch, Third Coast, Iron Horse Literary Review, Lake Effect, The Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, and others. She earned her MFA in Poetry from The Ohio State University in 2008. Her first book, The Light of What Comes After, was published in April 2018 by Bauhan Publishing.

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The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World

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