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Alison Thumel is a writer from Chicago. She is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her poems have appeared in DIAGRAM, Ninth Letter, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Her first chapbook, LIFE OF, won Salt Hill’s Dead Lake Chapbook Contest in 2016.