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Zach Simon

Zach Simon is a lecturer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where he also earned his MFA in poetry. He serves as an editorial assistant for Poetry Northwest, and in 2022 he received the AWP Intro Journals Award for his poem “Homestead.” His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Southern Review, Poetry Northwest, Willow Springs, and elsewhere.

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