Maryann Corbett grew up in McLean, Virginia. She holds a doctorate in English from the University of Minnesota and is the author of Breath Control (David Robert Books, 2012), and the chapbooks Gardening in a Time of War (Pudding House) and Dissonance (Scienter Press). Her poems, essays, and translations have appeared in River Styx, Atlanta Review, Rattle e-issues, The Evansville Review, Measure, Literary Imagination, The Dark Horse, Mezzo Cammin, Linebreak, Subtropics, and others. Her poems have have won the Lyric Memorial Award and the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. She lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and works for the Minnesota Legislature. She is married to John Corbett, a teacher of statistics and mathematics, and they have two grown children.

Other poems by Maryann Corbett in Verse Daily:
August 10, 2017:   "Concourse" "And now, presto—the way dreams change, abruptly—..."
May 18, 2015:   "Prophesying to the Breath" "I'm tired of it, this labored breathing. Tired..."
November 14, 2013:   "Chiller" "Seven a.m. The hunter's moon..."

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"State Office Building, Seventh Floor"
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"The Forgery: A Quiz"
"Concourse"

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