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""Elline Lipkin's beautifully rendered book of poems, Girl in a Forest, is a book of accumulations, and propulsions. The comma sets the rhythm, is primary in these lucid and poignant poems about girlhood, motherhood, daughterhood, often through the persona. The comma accumulates syntactical power, retracts and reconsiders, propels the characters and narrative forward. These list-making poems in fugue quietly accumulate agency, one phrase at a time."" -Victoria Chang, author of With My Back to the World ""Gestation, hunger, grief, and mortality lay a breadcrumb trail through the lives of folkloric characters restored to profound embodiments, richly present and dimensional."" -Alice Fulton, author of Coloratura On A Silence Found In Many Expressive Systems ""Lipkin's magisterial imagination and velvet wordplay are everywhere in evidence in Girl in a Forest, making this book of poems a light of insight."" -Molly Peacock, author of The Widow's Crayon Box ""Inside this forest, and the house waiting at its center, lurk trauma and tenderness, traps and bonds, regret and desire, and just perhaps, a charm for survival."" -Jeanne Marie Beaumont, author of Lessons with Scissors

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Elline Lipkin is a poet, nonfiction writer, and academic. She holds an MFA and PhD in Creative Writing and Literature and has been a Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Berkeley and a Research Scholar with UCLA's Center for the Study of Women. Her first book, The Errant Thread, was chosen by Eavan Boland for the Kore Press First Book Award. Her second, Girls' Studies, is part of the Seal Studies series. She has been in residence at Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, and was a California Resident at Yefe Nof. She has served on the selection committee for the Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards. A past mentor with AWP's Writer to Writer program, she is active with WriteGirl in Los Angeles and writes for Ms. magazine. For two years, she served her community as Poet Laureate and editor of the Altadena Poetry Review.

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