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Stephanie McKenzie has published four books of poetry, three of them with Salmon Poetry (Cliffs of Moher, Ireland). To write her most recent collection, Bow’s Haunt: The Gusle’s Lessons (2018), McKenzie traveled to Serbia and lived there to study the gusle, an instrument that is integral to epic poetry. She is professor in the English Programme, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland.