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Maureen Thorson is a poet, publisher, and book designer living in Washington, D.C. She is the author of a number of chapbooks, includingTwenty Questions for the Drunken Sailor(Dusie/flynpyntar Press, 2009);Mayport(Poetry Society of America, 2006), which won the Poetry Society of America's National Chapbook Fellowship; andNovelty Act(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2004). Her poems can be found in many anthologies and journals, including the forthcomingYale Anthology of Younger American Poets, EXQUISITE CORPSE,Hotel Amerika,LIT, THE HAT, and6x6. Maureen is the publisher and editor of Big Game Books, a small press dedicated to emerging poets. She is also the co-curator of the In Your Ear reading series at the DC Arts Center and the founder of NaPoWriMo, an annual project in which poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April.