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A few good stories, a thousand different versions. My dreams are written in form.

Rachel Boury Baxter is a mom, writer, and poet living in South Bend, Indiana. She has a B.A. in English writing and English literature from Saint Mary's College (Notre Dame, Indiana). In 2016, she founded the publication, Poetry in Form, a celebration of poetic form. Motherhood is a prominent focus and theme in her work. Mother Scorpion is a collection of poems written during pregnancy and the postpartum period.

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