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Jane Shore is the author of five books of poetry, including her most recent, A Yes or No Answer, and Music Minus One, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has won the Juniper Prize and the Lamont Poetry Prize. She teaches at George Washington University.

A Yes or No Answer won the Poet’s Prize in 2010, which is awarded annually to the best book of verse published by an American during the preceding year.  It is a valued prize particularly since it is awarded by other poets.

Jane  lives with her husband, author Howard Norman, in Washington, DC and E. Calais, Vermont.  They have one daughter, Emma.  Jane and Howard are great supporters of Bear Pond Books and have each done events here.  We watched their daughter Emma grow up as she, too, was a frequent visitor to the store.