295:(2001), is a literary thriller with its focus on a Boston artist's life and work, and the complications that arise when her solitary focus is broken by the murder of a friend and colleague and followed by a series of brutal killings that edge ever closer to her own life. The story's descriptions were considered "especially vivid" by
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Humanities Commission, a post she held for five years. In 1983, as a component of her residency, she founded Salina's Spring Poetry Reading Series, which is still bringing poets of national repute into Salina
77:. She is the author of four volumes of poetry, a novel, and a short story collection. Born and raised in San Diego, California, one of eight children in a working-class family, Traxler was much influenced by her maternal grandmother, Nora Dunne, a poet from
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