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Mary Jo Bang
Mary Jo Bang is an American poet with eight collections of poems, including Elegy, which received the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award, and a translation of Dante's Inferno, illustrated by Henrik Drescher. Her translation of Purgatorio will be published by Graywolf Press in 2021. She teaches creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis.