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Esther Phillips is a Barbadian poet. She became the first poet laureate of Barbados in 2018.
Katherine Indermaur is a writer, poet, and magazine editor. In 2008, she was appointed as the first North Carolina Student Poet Laureate by Kathryn Stripling Byer. She authored the 2018 chapbook PULSE, the 2021 chapbook Facing the Mirror: An Essay, and the 2022 poetry book I/I. She is a recipient of the 2018 Academy of American Poets Prize, the 2019 Black Warrior Review Poetry Prize, and 2022 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize. Indermaur was a runner-up in 92nd Street Y's Discovery Poetry Contest in 2020. In 2023, she was the recipient of the Colorado Book Award for poetry. Indermaur is an editor at Sugar House Review and previously served as managing editor at Colorado Review and as an assistant editor at Alpinist.
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- ↑ "Poet Rachelle Cruz has big plans for her term as Inlandia Literary Laureate". Press Enterprise. 2019-03-24. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
- ↑ "Free workshop will help Inland teens polish their poetry". Press Enterprise. 2019-06-18. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
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