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Colleen Connell Mitchell is an author, poet, community advocate and justice-seeker. She has published two books and has had poems published in a number of anthologies. She is currently working on her first chapbook of poetry, Lithium Diaries, to be released this winter. Colleen is mom to five of the most stellar humans on the planet, one queenly cat and a mostly adorably puppy.