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Bianca StoneBianca Stone is a poet and visual artist. Her books include Someone Else's Wedding Vows and The Mobius Strip Club of Grief. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Baffler and Poetry Magazine. Her newest collection, What is Otherwise Infinite, will be out in January 2022. She lives in Vermont.
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