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Kieron Walquist [he/they] is a queer neurospicy poet + visual artist from mid-Missouri. Their work appears in Best New Poets, Gulf Coast, IHLR, The Missouri Review, Pleiades, Poet LoreThird Coast, Waxwing, + elsewhere. 

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Their chapbook, LOVE LOCKS, was selected by Luther Hughes for the 2022 Quarterly West Chapbook Contest. 

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He holds a BA from Lincoln University of Missouri, an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, + has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Monson Arts, + Vermont Studio Center.

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He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Utah + lives in Salt Lake City. 

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Home Photo: Sara Abbaspour | ©2022 by Kieron Walquist 

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