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Barbara Crooker’s poems have appeared in magazines such as Green Mountains Review, Hollins Critic, and Denver Quarterly, and in anthologies such as The BedfordIntroduction to Literature, Good Poems for Hard Times (Garrison Keillor, editor), and Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania. Her books are Radiance, which won the 2005 Word Press First Book competition and was a finalist for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize; Line Dance, which won the 2009 Paterson Prize for Literary Excellence; More; and Gold. Her hobbies include cooking and eating.