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Welcome to SWWIM Every Day’s preview coverage of Miami Book Fair (MBF) 2025! We’ve been partnering with MBF since 2020 to bring you stimulating, inspiring work. From November 3 to 14, watch daily features on a selection of poets, just a glimpse of the incredible authors participating in this year’s MBF, the nation’s largest gathering of writers and readers of all ages. For more information about these and other authors, visit miamibookfaironline.com, follow @miamibookfair on Instagram and X, and join the conversation with #miamibookfair2025.

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Natalie Shapero will read at the Miami Book Fair on Saturday, November 22, at 1:00 p.m. Location: Building 8, Second Floor, Room 8203.

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Natalie Shapero’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The London Review of Books, The Paris Review, The Nation, and other journals. Her most recent book, Stay Dead, is longlisted for the National Book Award. She is also the author of the poetry collections Popular Longing (2021), Hard Child (2017), and No Object (2013), and has performed at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, the Poetry Project at St. Marks, and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles and teaches writing at UC Irvine.