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Hanif Abdurraqib

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Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. His first full length poetry collection, The Crown Ain't Worth Much, was released in June 2016 from Button Poetry. It was named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize, and was nominated for a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. With Big Lucks, he released a limited edition chapbook, Vintage Sadness, in summer 2017 (you cannot get it anymore...

Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan

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Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan is a children's author and teacher from Pittsburgh, PA. She is the author of The Science and Technology of Leonardo da Vinci (2021) and a dozen fiction and nonfiction books and graphic novels. She's also written for textbooks and online educational resources. She writes fiction, non-fiction, crafts, and recipes for magazines including Highlights for Children, Spider, and Muse.  She is the Regional Advisor for SCBWI Pennsylvania: West. She was the 2016-2017 Pen Parentis Fellow and won an SCBWI Merit Award in 2020. Elizabeth lives with her family and pet schnoodle. She loves board...