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Benjamin Faro

Benjamin Faro is a green-thumbed writer and educator living in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He is currently pursuing his MFA at Queens University of Charlotte, where he was the poetry editor for Issue 17 of Qu Magazine. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Equatorial Literary Magazine: an international curation of undergraduate poetry. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and appears or is forthcoming in EcoTheo Review, JMWW, Nimrod International Journal, Portland Review, West Trade Review, and others.