Amy Bracken Sparks is the author of serious red and queen of cups and has had poems published in American Poetry Review, Art Crimes, Barn Owl Review, Denver Quarterly, DMQ Review, Gargoyle, Harpur Palate, Hobble Creek Review, mirage period(ical), Nimrod, Pleiades, Southern Poetry Review, wicked alice, and others. She is the recipient of three Ohio Arts Council fellowships and a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts and works as an editor at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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