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Winner of the 2021 Trio Award: Megan Neville's The Fallow traverses the nature of birth and death, past and present. Her poetry is hands-on, enveloping the senses with metaphorical exploration of the body and humanity's "" refusal to swallow"" with ""hands around/ their throats."" Neville denounces societal expectations of sex, motherhood and the female body, while delving into a nation's seemingly endless cycle of trauma. The Fallow immerses us in Neville's inner struggle with the outdated and unchallenged social norms of this world. With an underhanded fierceness, Neville unfolds the formalities of living for us to digest line by line.

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Megan Neville (she/her) is a writer and educator based in Cleveland, Ohio. She is the author of the chapbook Rust Belt Love Song (Game Over Books, 2019), and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in West Branch, Pleiades, Poets.org, wildness, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, The Boiler, McSweeney's, Lunch Ticket, Dialogist, and elsewhere. She is a National Board Certified Teacher of English Language Arts in Adolescence/Young Adulthood, and holds BSE and MEd degrees from Kent State University. She was the winner of the 2019 Wick Poetry Center Contest for Peace & Transformation, and has been a finalist or semifinalist for the Write Bloody Book Contest, the Akron Poetry Prize, the Frost Place Chapbook Contest, the Tupelo Press Sunken Garden Chapbook Contest, and the YesYes Books 2020 Open Reading Period, and others. She is also a poetry reader for Split Lip Magazine. Find her on Twitter @MegNev.

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