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Shelby Dale DeWeese grew up on a farm in the southeast United States but currently lives and writes in California. She is an MFA candidate at the University of San Francisco, a poetry reader for Switchback and Teen Ink, and an educational program intern at 826 Valencia. Her poems have appeared in publications such as Quaint Magazine, Marathon Literary Review, and The Knicknackery. She can be found online at shelbydaledeweese.com.