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Joy Priest grew up in Louisville, Kentucky across the street from the world’s most famous horse-racing track. She is the 2018 Gregory Pardlo Scholar at The Frost Place, and has received support from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Fine Arts Works Center in Provincetown. Her poems and essays have appeared or are upcoming in numerous publications including Blackbird, Callaloo, espnW, Four Way Review, and the anthologies Best New Poets 2014, Best New Poets 2016, and The Breakbeat Poets.

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