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Melissa Leigh Gore

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Melissa Leigh Gore is a poet and tech geek who lives and works in Boston, MA. She received her MA in English & WGS from Brandeis University, where she wrote a thesis about "body language" in the poetry of Sharon Olds. If she had a feminist chess team, she would name it "A Rook of Her Own." You can find her on Twitter: @ML_Gore or at melissaleighgore.com

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