Valerie DuffValerie Duff has held fellowships from the VCCA and Writers' Room of Boston. Her poems have appeared in AGNI, POETRY, Ploughshares, The Common, Great River Review, and elsewhere. Her first book, To the New World (Salmon Poetry, 2010), was shortlistedfor the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize from Queens University, Belfast. She is currently working in Donor Relations and Stewardship at MIT and is a coach at Hillside Writing. Read More Read Less