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Rebekah Zhuraw

Rebekah Zhuraw has an MA from The Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars in poetry and an MA from the University of Pennsylvania in Folklore, where she is currently completing a dissertation on magic for the Ph.D. in Folklore.  A former manuscript  reader for both Antaeus and Boulevard (where she was an assistant editor), she has held a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship for poetry and has published poems in the usual places, as well as an e-book of poetry through the Slought Foundation.  Rebekah’s interests revolve around intersections of aesthetics, culture, and belief, especially in the areas of science, religion, and the arts.