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Rachel Eliza Griffiths is an artist. Her most recent collection of poetry is Lighting the Shadow (Four Way Books, 2015). A Cave Canem and Kimbilio Fellow, Griffiths’ visual and literary work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Georgia Review, American Poetry Review, Guernica, and many others. She lives in New York.