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Janet Dale

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Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction

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Janet Dale is a writer, reader, and teacher, whose essays, stories, and poetry have been published in The Boiler, HAD, Pine Hills Review, Zone 3, and others. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and for inclusion in Best of the Net.

She holds an MFA in creative writing from Georgia College, and she earned her BA from the University of Memphis where she focused on creative and news-editorial writing.

She has worked as a registered pharmacy technician, reading teacher, blogged about sports for The Commercial Appeal, volunteered with VIDA (Women in the Literary Arts), and assisted with the Flannery O’Connor Review, Arts & Letters, Nightjar Review, and Wraparound South.

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