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Gregory Fraser and Lexa Hillyer

Gregory Fraser and Lexa Hillyer are two poets staking out territory in the current landscape of contemporary verse.

Gregory Fraser is the author of three books of verse, most recently Designed for Flight (2013) and he's currently an editor at the Birmingham poetry Review. A recpipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Fraser is also coauthor, with Chad Davidson of the textbook, Writing Poetry: Creative and Critical Approaches.



 Lexa Hillyer is the author of Acquainted with the Cold, the 2012 gold prize winner of the Foreword Book of the Year Award for Poetry, as well as the recipient of the Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize. She is also the author of Proof of Forever, a debut young adult novel forthcoming from HarperCollins in 2015. She is co-founder of boutique literary incubator Paper Lantern Lit.

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