Ann Townsend

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Ann Townsend (born December 5, 1962) is an American poet and essayist. She is the co-founder of VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts and a professor of English and director of the creative writing at Denison University,^[1] She has published three original poetry collections and co-edited a collection of lyric poems.