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From Alaska, Bret Shepard completed his MFA at Saint Mary's College (CA) and his PhD at the University of Nebraska. Currently, Bret lives outside Philadelphia and is an Assistant Professor of English at Goldey-Beacom College. 

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He is author of the collection Absent Here, which was awarded AWP's 2023 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and published as part of the Pitt Poetry Series. Another full length, Place Where Presence Was, won the Moon City Poetry Prize. Bret's chapbook The Territorial received the Midwest Chapbook Prize from the Laurel Review and GreenTower Press; and Negative Compass was awarded the Wells College Chapbook Prize. 

 

Special skills include juggling and unicycling. Special skills do not include competitive video gaming, but he does enjoy playing both new and old Nintendo games. 

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