Jackie McNamara holds an MA and an MFA and teaches at College of the Siskiyous in Northern California. Her work has appeared in Clackamas Literary Review
and West Wind Review, among others, and she has been the featured poet in Midwest Poetry Journal. She served on the board of directors for the International Writers Series at Southern Oregon University and won their Casebeer Poetry Prize. In addition, She has co-edited Rivertalk, An Anthology of Ojai Poets; West Wind Review; and The Bear Trail Journal at COS. ---------
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