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After receiving her Master's degree, she taught
English at high school for two years. Persons then began writing poetry and publishing in small literary journals in the early 1980s. During and after law school, she took a long hiatus from writing and worked for a legal book publisher; she also worked
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nomination. Eight of her poems have been featured on
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