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Jennifer O’Grady is an award-winning poet and playwright. Her first book of poems, White, won the Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry. Her most recent poetry collection is Exclusions & Limitations (Plume Editions/MadHat Press, 2018). Her poems have been taught, anthologized, set to music and featured in numerous places including Harper’s, The New Republic, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, Poetry Daily, <i?The Writer’s Almanac and BBC Radio 4 (to name a few). Her plays have been staged by theaters in the U.S. and in Dublin, Ireland, and have received the Henley Rose Award and other prizes. Her work is included in The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2017 and 2014, The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2017 and 2016, Best Contemporary Monologues for Women 18-35, 30 New Ten-Minute Plays and Stage It’s 2019 Ten-Minute Play Anthology. She holds a BA from Vassar and an MFA from Columbia University, and lives with her family near New York City.