George Looney’s recent books include The Acrobatic Company of the Invisible, winner of the 2022 Cider Press Review Editors’ Prize, Birds of Sympathy: Correspondences (with Douglas Smith), winner of the 2022 Apogee Poetry Chapbook Award, The Visibility of Things Long Submerged, which won the 2022 BOA Editions’ Short Fiction Award, and The Itinerate Circus: New and Selected Poems 1995-2020. He founded the BFA Program at Penn State Erie, edits Lake Effect, and is translation editor of Mid-American Review.

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