Monica Hand is the author of DiVida and of me and Nina, winner of the 2010 Kinereth Gensler
Award and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nominee. After a 32 -year career with the U.S.
Postal Service, she received an MFA in Poetry and Poetry in Translation from Drew University
in 2011. She moved from New York to Columbia, Missouri, in 2012 to pursue a PhD at the
University of Missouri. Hand received a fellowship from Cave Canem and served as a founding
member of the poetry collective Poets for Ayiti. She passed away in December 2016.
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