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Paige Lewis

Paige Lewis is the author of the poetry collection Space Struck (Sarabande Books, 2019) and coeditor of Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Recovery (Sarabande Books, 2023). Lewis received their MFA and PhD in creative writing from Florida State University. Their poems have appeared in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. They curated the YouTube channel Ours Poetica with authors John Green and Sarah Urist Green. Lewis teaches at the University of Iowa. Canon is their first novel.

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