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Merna Dyer Skinner is a poet and communications consultant living in Portland, OR. She was a 2023 Crosswinds Poetry Contest finalist, and semi-finalist in Naugatuck River Review’s Poetry Contest. Her poems appear in numerous US and international journals including:  Whale Road Review, Chiron Review, Rust & Moth ONE ART, Lily Poetry Review, and The Baltimore Review, among others, and six anthologies. Her chapbook, A Brief History of Two Aprons, was published by Finishing Line Press. Merna has lived in six U.S. states, traveled to six continents, and is currently editing an anthology of fishing poems by female poets.