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About Carolyn

​Carolyn Zaikowski is the current Poet Laureate of Easthampton, Massachusetts. She is the author of the hybrid novel In a Dream, I Dance by Myself, and I Collapse (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016). Her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared widely, in such publications as Washington Post, Alaska Quarterly Review, West Branch, Denver Quarterly, The Rumpus, DIAGRAM, Huffington Post, and Everyday Feminism. She holds an MFA from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and is currently a writing instructor, manuscript consultant, and death doula. Find her at carolynzaikowski.com and carolynzzz.substack.com.