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Robin Clifford Wood is an author, poet, teacher, and essayist. She has a BA from Yale University, an MA in English from the University of Rochester and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast program. She taught college writing for five years at Husson University. In addition to writing a regular column for the Bangor Daily News for five years. Wood's work has also been featured in Port City Life magazine, Bangor Metro, Maine Public Radio's "Music That Moves Me" series, The Maine Review, Literary Ladies Guide, Writes4Women, and Solstice Literary Magazine, which published her essay, "How Do You Help Your Parents Die" in 2019. One of her poems won second place in the 2020 Writer's Digest Annual Competition, and another, "The Ballad of Hadlock, the Seal Hunter Showman," was produced by Penobscot Theatre Company as part of their fall 2020 audio theater program. Wood's first book, The Field House: A Writer's Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine, is a biography-memoir hybrid that has gone through four printings (over 4000 copies) and is garnering wide acclaim. Wood lives in central Maine with her husband and a sweet old dog named Clara.