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Flexible Bones, a finalist for the Colorado Book Award in Poetry, and How Long She'll Last in This World, a finalist for the PEN Center USA Award in Poetry, are available through University of Arizona Press (published as Maria Melendez).

 Recent short fiction: "Optimize Us" at strandmag.com and "What If the Whole Camp of Kids Learned How to Liquefy?" at Lightspeed.

March 5: Saint Joseph County Public Library

South Bend, Indiana

March 11: Colorado State-University, Pueblo

March 13-15: Left Coast Crime

Denver, CO

Contact me at maria@mariakelson.com.

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