Mara JebsenMara Jebsen is a poet, essayist and performer raised in Philadelphia and in Lome, Togo. She holds a B.A. in African and African American Studies from Duke University and an MFA from New York University. A 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts fellow,Mara currently teaches undergraduate writing at the Expository Writing Program and the Tisch school of Arts and Public Policy at New York University. Alphabet is her first chapbook. Read More Read Less