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Catherine Maryse Anderson is a poet, essayist, photographer, anti-racist ally, educator and director and curator of the performing arts in Portland, Maine. Her first manuscript, Black Enough, which she began at her stay at the Martha’s Vineyard Writers Residency in April 2014, was recently completed. She blogs and shares her poems and photography at mamacandtheboys.com.