Gary Dop is the author of the poetry collection Father, Child, Water (Red Hen Press, 2015). His work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The New York Quarterly, AGNI Online, Rattle, and New Letters, among others. He received the 2013 Great Plains Emerging Writer Prize from the 37th Annual Great Plains Writers’ Conference. Dop is an assistant professor of English at Randolph College.  

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