Adina Schoem's thoughtful and beautiful poems in Cryptographs in a field of goats offer an intimate look at rural life and longing. Adina grew up in Michigan and received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poems have appeared in Pudding Magazine, Midwestern Gothic, Lumina, and Finery (Birds of Lace Press), among others. Her summer spent living and working on a goat farm near Lake Michigan informed many of the poems in Cryptographs in a field of goats, her prize-winning collection. After cheesemongering for several years, she is now a bread baker in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
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