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Kristin Camitta Zimet
Photo credit: Deborah Carlon
KRISTIN CAMITTA ZIMET is the author of a collection of poems, Take in My Arms the Dark. She was the longtime editor of The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review. She lives in the Shenandoah Valley, where she is a poet, artist, nature interpreter, and healer. A devoted member of the Virginia Master Naturalists and the Virginia Native Plant Society, she has been creating a Wildflower of the Week series, and interpretation for the Sensory Explorers’ Trail at Sky Meadows State Park.