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Kristin Roedell is a Northwest poet and retired attorney. Her poetry has appeared in Switched on Gutenberg, Damselflypress, Flutter, Soundings Review, Tacoma’s City Arts, Ekphrasis, Eclectica, Cliterature, Open Minds Quarterly, Touch: a Journal of Healing (Editor’s choice, September 2010), Puffin Circus, Chantarelle’s Notebook, The Fertile Source, Breath and Shadow, Frost Writing, Four and Twenty Journal, Autumn Sky Poetry, Quill and Parchment, (featured poet January 2010) Workers Write, Ginosko, The Mom Egg, Pilgrimage, CHEST, Soundings Review, Seeding the Snow, Sierra Nevada Review, Quantum Poetry Magazine, Poetry for the Masses, Wazee Journal, Amoskeag, Voice Catcher Anthology, Glass Poetry Journal, Time of Singing, Mused, Sante Fe Review, An Anthology of Time by [Title] Publishing House, em:me, The Origami Poems Project, Northwest Prime Time, Legal Studies Forum, River Lit, Theodate, The Journal of the American Medical Association, Pacific Poetry, Blue Hour, Avalon Literary Review, Black Cat Lit, WomenArts Quarterly, Ghost Town Anthology, She is the author of Girls With Gardenias, (Flutter Press, 2011). She has been nominated once for the Pushcart prize, and twice for Best of the Web. She was the winner of NISA's 11th Annual Brainstorm Poetry Contest (2013), a finalist in the Crab Creek Poetry Contest (2013), and placed third in the Avalon Literary Review Poetry Contest (2013). Her full length collection "Downriver" was a finalist in the Quercus Review Press Poetry Contest, and is forthcoming from Aldrich Press in March of 2015.

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