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Myronn Hardy is the author of two volumes of poetry, Approaching the Center, which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and The Headless Saints (2008).  His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Tampa Review, Many Mountains Moving, Phoebe, Versal (Amsterdam), Third Coast, Callaloo, and elsewhere.  His short stories have appeared in Callaloo and Gargoyle.  He has received fellowships from the Annenberg Foundation, Djerassi, Cave Canem, Instituto Sacatar, and Fundación Valparaiso.  He has received degrees from the University of Michigan and Columbia University.  He is currently completing his first novel.  He lives in New York City.