Carrie Close was born and raised in Maine, where she has spent most of her life, excluding a year abroad in France, and a brief stint at a hippie school in Boulder, Colorado. She is currently pursuing her BFA in Creative Writing from the University of Maine at Farmington. She and her boyfriend Josh, have two sons: Emerand and Zephyr, and two dogs, an English Setter named Franklin and a Husky/German Shepard/Chow Chow mix named Sascha. Her first collection of poetry and short stories, What Have I (
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