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Parker Smathers

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Parker Smathers, Acquisitions Editor for Wesleyan University Press, has a B.A. '97 from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, and an MFA '01 from the University of Iowa in Poetry. His poems have appeared in the Denver Quarterly and Iowa Review. Parker comes to Wesleyan from the University of Chicago Press where he was an editorial associate.

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