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Sharmila Voorkkara

Sharmila Voorakkara is an assistant professor of English at Ohio University. Her first book, Fire Wheel, won the 2003 Akron poetry prize.

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Jane Doe

Fall 2005 | Poetry

The day they drag the river to come up with a girl will be a long one— whatever silt-covered ghost they’ll raise, tangled in grasses and bulrush— will be the day you decide to forget all about the night travel of such broken women, the odd n [...]