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Jennie Neighbors has two books of poetry: Between the Twilight and the Sky (Parlor Press), an extended poem on liminality, and But They, Um (Spuyten Duyvil Press), a performance poem utilizing documents from the Abu Ghraib torture scandal to examine the language of atrocity. She has poetry in journals such as Painted Bride Quarterly, Another Chicago Magazine, and Canary.