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Carol J. Scamman is a Massachusetts native who lives in Nacogdoches, TX with two Siberian Forest cats. She’s a retired academic librarian and earned degrees from Grove City College (BA) and UAlbany (MLS). Her poetry has appeared in Trolley: the online journal of the NYS Writers Institute, rhizomag, and rainy weather days: A defiant literary magazine. She won second place in her public library’s 2022 National Poetry Month Contest and has published creative nonfiction in the anthology The West That Was (1993), ed. by Joe Lansdale and Thomas Knowles. Her grandfather, Henry W. Scamman, a poet and farmer from Phillips, ME, inspired her to write. Ms. Scamman has volunteered as an ESL teacher and loves traveling, eating authentic ethnic foods, and learning new languages. In the afterlife, she’d like to return as a bluegrass banjo or fiddle player. In the meantime, she’s content to listen to bluegrass music.