Ali Shapiro is a recent graduate of the MFA program in poetry at the University of Michigan. Her poems have been published in
RATTLE,
Redivider,
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PANK, and
Cutbank, and her posts are regularly featured on the
Ploughshares blog. She’s the recipient of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, scholarships from the Fine Arts Work Center and the Vermont Studio Center, and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes in various denominations. The Wigs, her webcomic exploring the ambiguous relationship between two guinea pigs wearing clown noses, can be found at
otherwig.com.
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It seems just about every writer interviewed at Rumpus is a teacher. Gone are the days when writers could sell enough books to be self-supporting. Now they’re all faculty members teaching others to be writers/faculty members.
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