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Hilary Vaughn Dobel was born in the Pacific Northwest and lives in Massachusetts, where she is a clinical social worker and outpatient psychotherapist. She holds an MSW with highest academic honors from the Boston College School of Social Work.
Also a poet and Spanish-to-English translator, Hilary holds degrees from Princeton University and University of Chicago, and she has been invited to lecture at Princeton and at Wellesley College. She has received fellowships from the St. Botolph Club Foundation and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her first book, The Messerschmidt Poems, was published with Platypus Press in 2021.
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