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Paula Cisewski's fourth poetry collection, Quitter, won Diode Editions' Book Prize. She is also the author of The Threatened Everything (Burnside Review Press), Ghost Fargo (selected by Franz Wright for the Nightboat Poetry Prize), Upon Arrival (Black Ocean), and several chapbooks, including the lyric prose Misplaced Sinister. She has been awarded fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Cisewski lives in Minneapolis, where she teaches both academically and privately.