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- ↑ Massachusetts Cultural Council > Artist Fellows & Finalists > Caroline Knox 2006 Fellow
- ↑ Massachusetts Cultural Council > Artist Fellows & Finalists > Caroline Knox 2006 Fellow
- ↑ "Brenda Shaughnessy Receives the James Laughlin Award". Academy of American Poets. September 5, 2007. Retrieved September 1, 2010.
- ↑ NEA Literature Fellowships > Forty Years of Supporting American Writers Archived September 23, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
