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Alfonso Zapata is a poet living in Lexington, Kentucky. He received his MFA in poetry at The University of Kentucky, and has attended The University of Toledo and The University of Southern Mississippi, where he obtained his master’s degree in English. He has previously received the Jim Lawless IV Poetry Prize, and the 2022 & 2023 University of Kentucky MFA Poetry Awards. His work has appeared in Sho Poetry Journal, his first chapbook, Together Now, is available from Belle Point Press, and his first full book of poetry, To Pay for Our Next Breath, will be released in Spring 2025 by Texas Review Press.

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