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Paige Ackerson-Kiely was born in October of 1975 in Biddeford Maine. She is a modern poet and also works for the Poetry Journal Handsome. She currently lives in Vermont with her family.

Education
Paige Ackerson-Kiely recieved a BA in Asian Studies from the Univesity of New Mexico in Albuqureque. Prior to this achievement, she attended Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, Marmara University in Istanbul, and Birzeit University in Birzeit, Palestine.

Author
Ackerson-Kiely is the author of In No One's Land (Ahsahta Press, 2007), a book of poetry that was selected for the 2006 Sawtooth Poetry Prize. This book also won the award for Poets & Writers Exhange. She has been published in numerous Journals such as Pleiades, Bellingham Review, Ninth Letter, Jubilant, and The Laurel Review. In 2009 she was one of the featured authors in the all poetry edition of The Laurel Review, an edition that was dedicated to the memory of poet Reginald Shepherd. She is currently a co-editor for the Poetry Journal Handsome.