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DesAutels Chelsea B. DesAutels is the author of A Dangerous Place (Sarabande Books, 2021), which was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice and described by Publishers Weekly as a “lush and transformative debut” (starred review). Chelsea has received support from the Anderson Center at Tower View, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Tin House Summer Workshop, Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo. Winner of the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize from the Missouri Review, Chelsea’s work has appeared in Copper Nickel, Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, Ninth Letter, Southeast Review, and elsewhere, and her poem “City Lake” was featured by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón on The Slowdown podcast. Chelsea is the founder and director of Freshwater Writing, and she lives with her family in Minneapolis. 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Looking for a writing ritual to push through the heat of summer? In the week of the summer solstice, during the longest days of the year, we will meet in the early morning—before work, before the children rise—and we will write intensively for five days. At the end of the week, you’ll have five new poems you can revisit and revise at your own pace. 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DesAutels Chelsea B. DesAutels is the author of A Dangerous Place (Sarabande Books), which was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice and described by Publishers Weekly as a “lush and transformative debut” (starred review). Recently, Chelsea has been awarded fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Yaddo, among others. Winner of the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize from the Missouri Review, Chelsea’s work has appeared in Copper Nickel, Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and elsewhere, and her poem “City Lake” was featured by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón on The Slowdown podcast. She is the recipient of a 2025 MISA/Loft Excellence in Teaching Fellowship.. Chelsea is the founder of Freshwater Writing, and she lives with her family in Minneapolis. 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