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1. First printing: 2,000 copies. 2. Danni Quintos is the winner of the 20th annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, which was selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil. This is her debut full-length poetry collection. 3. This title is part of BOA's New Poets of America Series, which have seen strong sales in recent seasons by such authors as Chen Chen and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo. Previous Poulin winners in this series have seen outstanding attention from The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The Rumpus, Forward Reviews, etc. 4. Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil will write the Foreword for the collection, and her name will appear on the cover. Nezhukumatathil is the author of the New York Times bestseller and Kirkus Prize finalist, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, & Other Astonishments (Milkweed, 2020), which was chosen as Barnes and Noble's Book of the Year for 2020. She is the author of four poetry collections: Oceanic (Copper Canyon, 2018), Lucky Fish (Tupelo Press, 2011), At The Drive-in Volcano (Tupelo Press, 2007), and Miracle Fruit (Tupelo, 2003). 5. Danni Quintos tackles the hot-button topics of race, gender, immigration, and identity from a Filipina/x-American perspective. The poems in this collection explore what it means to be a racially ambiguous, multiethnic Asian American woman growing up in Kentucky through the memories of girlhood, motherhood, family history, and Phillipine folklore. In the author's words: "It is an antidote to the definition of 'American' as 'white.' It means to carve out a space and let readers know that we exist, we belong, we are from here and will continue to be." 6. Quintos is a Kentuckian, a mom, an educator, and an Affrilachian Poet who studied with Ellen Hagan, Mitchell L. H. Douglas and Kelly Norman Ellis. She received her MFA in Poetry from Indiana University and currently serves as a Humanities Instructor at Bluegrass Community and Technical College. 7. Quintos's writing has appeared in Best New Poets 2015, Cream City Review, Day One, Pluck!, Salon, and in the chapbook PYTHON (Argus House, 2017), which features photography by her sister, Shelli Quintos. 8. Strong subject appeal for feminist studies, AAPI studies, multiethnic studies, and folklore studies, as well as courses on immigration, identity, race, gender, and intersectional identities. 9. Strong regional appeal in Kentucky/Appalachia, the South, the Pacific Northwest, the West Coast, and cities with large multiethnic/Filipina/Filipinx communities.

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