Laurel Benjamin is a Cider Press Review Book Award finalist. Active with the Bay Area Women’s Poetry Salon, she curates Ekphrastic Writers, and is a reader for Common Ground Review. Find her work in Pirene's Fountain, Lily Poetry Review, The Shore. She has featured in the Lily Poetry Salon and holds Pushcart Prize and Best of Net nominations. Laurel lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she invented a secret language with her brother.

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