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Panika M. C. Dillon is from Fairbanks, Arkansas and Austin, Texas. Her work has appeared in Heavy Feather Review, Poets&Artists, Copper Nickel, DIAGRAM, Steam Ticket, Alice Blue Review, apt, and others. She received her MFA in creative writing (poetry) from Sarah Lawrence College and placed second for the 2024 Vivian Shipley Poetry Prize awarded by the Connecticut Poetry Society. She is a legislative reporter at the Texas Capitol, a major medical foster for Austin Pets Alive! and a crew leader at the Kerrville Folk Festival.