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MSt alumna Morgan Christie’s Variations on a Lobster’s Tale<\/em> won the Alexander Posey Chapbook contest in 2018, and has been published by the New Plains review. You can read more about the prize<\/a> here, and find the chapbook on Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MSt alumna Morgan Christie’s Variations on a Lobster’s Tale won the Alexander Posey Chapbook contest in 2018, and has been published by the New Plains review. 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