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Rob Carney is the author of seven books of poems, including The Book of Sharks (Black Lawrence Press, 2018), which won the 15 BYTES Book Award for Poetry in 2019. Two more books are forthcoming in 2021: Call and Response (Black Lawrence Press), a collection of new poems, and Accidental Gardens (Stormbird Press), a collection of 42 flash essays about the environment, politics, and poetics. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Carney earned a PhD in 1997 from the Â鶹¹ÙÍø of Louisiana-Lafayette then came to Utah to work at Utah Valley Â鶹¹ÙÍø (still called UVSC back in those days). In 2014 he received the Robinson Jeffers/Tor House Foundation Award for Poetry.