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Zuleyha Ozturk Lasky is a poet currently living in Tallahassee working towards an MFA in poetry at Florida State University. She is the co-founder of Leavings and an assistant poetry editor at Narrative Magazine. Her poems have appeared in Adroit, Small Orange, and Epiphany and are forthcoming in Salamander, Cream City Review, and Nimrod.
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