Pamela Johnson Parker works in the Department of Art & Design at Murray State University. Her poems, essays, and short fiction have been published in such journals as Iron Horse Literary Review, diode, Alligator Juniper, and Gamut, and in the anthologies Language Lessons Vol. 1 (Third Man Press, Nashville) and Best New Poets 2011.  A novel manuscript, "Horn & Hardart," is currently making the rounds. 

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