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David Eileen is an Ohio native who earned his MFA from Florida Atlantic University while Editor-in-Chief of the school’s literary magazine, Swamp Ape Review. They are currently a poetry editor for Alien Magazine. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Atlantic, Diagram, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Best of the Net, among others. You can find more of them at david-eileen.com.