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Colorado State University Creative Writing MFA alumna Abigail Chabitnoy has won the 2020 Colorado Book Award for Poetry. The award is for her poetry book — which also was her master’s thesis — How to Dress A Fish. In the book, Chabitnoy grapples with her identity through the history of her grandfather and his forced assimilation at Pennsylvania’s Carlisle School.
Read more about Chabitnoy and How to Dress a Fish in this Department of English feature story.
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