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Jason McCall is the author of Silver (Main Street Rag); I Can Explain (Finishing Line Press); Dear Hero, (Winner of the 2012 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize); Mother, Less Child (co-Winner of the 2013 Paper Nautilus Vella Chapbook Prize); Two-Face God (WordTech Editions); A Man Ain't Nothin' (Porkbelly Press); and What Shot Did You Ever Take (co-written with Brian Oliu). He is also the co-editor of the anthology It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop. He holds an MFA from the University of Miami, and he is from the great state of Alabama, where he currently teaches at the University of North Alabama.

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