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Danielle Pieratti (she/her) is the author of Approximate Body (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2023) and Fugitives (Lost Horse Press, 2016), winner of the 2015 Idaho Prize and the 2017 Connecticut Book Award for poetry. She also translated Maria Borio’s collection Transparencies (World Poetry Books, 2022). Her work has been shortlisted for the 2024 Perkoff Prize and the 2015 Hudson Prize, and has been supported by the Connecticut Office of the Arts, the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, and the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute. She earned an MFA in poetry from Columbia University and serves as poetry editor for Asymptote. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Boston Review, and Sixth Finch, among others.