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Jill McDonough
poet
Jill McDonough has taught incarcerated college students through Boston University's Prison Education Program since 1999. Her poems have appeared in *The Threepenny Review*, *The New Republic*, and *Slate*. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.