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Jacqueline Berger’s fifth book of poetry, Left at the Ruin, was published in 2024 by Terrapin Books. Her previous books include The Day You Miss Your Exit, Broadstone Books; The Gift That Arrives Broken, winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize; Things That Burn, winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize, University of Utah Press, and The Mythologies of Danger, winner of the Bluestem Award and the Bay Area Book Awards Poetry Prize. Several of her poems have been featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writers Almanac as well as in numerous anthologies and journals, including American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, American Poetry: The Next Generation, Carnegie Mellon Press, Old Dominion Review, Rhino, River Styx, Rattle, and Nimrod. She is a professor emerita at Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, California.