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Heather Kirn Lanier

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Heather Kirn Lanier is the author of the nonfiction book, Teaching in the Terrordome: Two Years in West Baltimore with Teach For America, as well as two award-winning poetry chapbooks. She is an adjunct professor at Southern Vermont College. You can find more of her work at heatherkirnlanier.com.

December 13, 2016

Cover Letter to the Search Committee from My Shadow Self

by Heather Kirn Lanier

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