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Joan Murray is a National Poetry Series winner and poet-in-residence at the New York State Writers Institute at the University at Albany. Author of three prizewinning books of poetry, Queen of the Mist, Looking for the Parade, and The Same Water, she is also author of the recently published Dancing on the Edge, editor of Poems to Live By in Uncertain Times, and general editor of the forthcoming Best of Pushcart Poetry.