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BIO

Penelope Cray is the author of Miracles Come on Mondays (Pleiades Press), selected by Kazim Ali for the 2018 Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose. Born in Western Australia, she was naturalized as a US citizen on September 11, 2018. Her poems and short fiction have appeared in journals such as Harvard Review, New England Review, Bartleby Snopes, elimae, Pleiades, and American Letters & Commentary and in the anthology Please Do Not Remove (2014). She holds an MFA from The New School and has been a resident at the Vermont Studio Center. She lives with her family in northern Vermont, where she runs an editorial business.