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Shawn R. Jones

Shawn R. Jones is a 2023 Civitella Ranieri Fellow, and her poetry collection, Date of Birth, won the 2022 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry. Her work has appeared in Tri-Quarterly, New Ohio Review, Callaloo, Cider Review, Obsidian Journal, Rattle, Essence, and elsewhere. Shawn is the co-owner of Tailored Tutoring LLC, a dance instructor at Halliday Dance, member of the poetry performance troupe, No River Twice, and the co-host of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway presented by Murphy Writing of Stockton University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and an MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers-Camden.  
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    After February 25, 1971

    Grandma was murdered at 42 when gun violence was uncommon. Mom had to identify the body. The coroner pulled the sheet down without warning. The corpse stared back at her. Mouth wide open. How could mom even take care of…