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"One of those quiet types who logs a lot of time in the bedlam of her head, I sometimes need to be startled awake to the fact that the outside world still exists."

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About Amy Gerstler

Amy Gerstler is an American poet based in Los Angeles, California. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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