Carol Hobbs is originally from Newfoundland, Canada and moved to Massachusetts in the mid-1990’s following the collapse of the fishery, and in the mass migration of islanders to parts of mainland Canada and beyond. Her poems have appeared in The Malahat Review, Fiddlehead, The Antigonish Review, Cider Press Review, Appalachian Heritage, Riddle Fence, and other magazines, journals, and anthologies in Canada, Ireland, and the United States. Her book manuscript, New Found Lande, received a PEN New England Discovery Prize, and under its new title The World’s Last Polar Bear, was named a semifinalist for the 2017 Perugia Press Prize.
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