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Stefene Russell is a poet and nonfiction writer living in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a third-year poetry MFA candidate at the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop.

Previously, she was Utah Eats reporter at The Salt Lake TribuneSt. Louis Magazine‘s culture editor; and Laumeier Sculpture Park’s poet-in-residence. 

Her chapbook, Inferna, was published in 2013 by Intagliata Imprints, with a cover by The Firecracker Press. The Possum Codex was published by Otis Nebula in the fall of 2015 (you can watch the book trailers here). In 2019, Spartan Press published 47 Incantatory Essays. Which are exactly what they sound like.