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Brooke Middlebrook

Brooke Middlebrook lives in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. She received her MFA in nonfiction from Bennington College. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Fugue, The Citron Review, and Shenandoah, and has been selected for Best New Poets (University of Virginia Press, 2025). She works as a medical writer and volunteers as a reader for The Maine Review.

Nonfiction

  • Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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