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Ada Limón
Biography
Ada Limón is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying (Milkweed, 2018), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Her book Bright Dead Things (Milkweed, 2015) was nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Limón was also the host of the critically acclaimed poetry podcast The Slowdown. She is the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States.
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