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Valencia Robin
Biography
Valencia Robin is a poet and visual artist. Her first collection of poems, Ridiculous Light (Persea, 2019), won Persea Books’s Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize, was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and was named one of Library Journal’s Best Poetry Books of 2019. A codirector of the UVA Young Writers Workshop, she holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Virginia and an MFA in art & design from the University of Michigan.