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Jendi Reiter's first book, A Talent for Sadness, was published in 2003 by Turning Point Books. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The New Criterion, Mudfish, The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Alligator Juniper, MARGIE: The American Journal of Poetry, Best American Poetry 1990 and many other publications. Awards include first prize for poetry in Alligator Juniper's 2006 National Writing Contest, first prize in the 2007 Elizabeth Simpson Smith Award for a Short Story (Charlotte Writers' Club), second prize in the 2007 Literal Latte Fiction Awards, second prize in the 2007 Utmost Christian Writers Poetry Contest, a $2,500 third prize in the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg 2005 Poetry Prize contest, two awards from the Poetry Society of America, the 2004 Olay Total Effects Fine Lines Poetry Prize, and the 2002 Mildred Werba Award from the Baltimore Writers' Alliance. She was also a finalist for the 2006 Anhinga Prize, the 2005 Black Warrior Review Poetry Contest and the 1998 Yale Series of Younger Poets. She is the editor of Poetry Contest Insider, an online guide to over 750 literary contests, published by www.winningwriters.com.
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