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Born in Norman Oklahoma Carrie Magness Radna is an archival audiovisual cataloger at the New York Public Library a singer a lyricist-songwriter and a poet who loves to travel. Her poems have previously appeared in the Oracular Tree Tuck Magazine Muddy River Poetry Review First Literary Review-East Mediterranean Poetry Shot Glass Journal The Poetic Bond VIII and The spirit it travels: an anthology of transcendent poetry (Cosmographia: published August 3 2019) and will be published in Nomads Choir Polarity e-Magazine and The Poetic Bond IX. Her first chapbook Conversations with Dead Composers at Carnegie Hall (Flutter Press) was published on January 18 2019 and Remembering You As I Go Walking (Boxwood Star Press) was published on August 23 2019. She won third prize for The Tunnel (Category: Words on the Wall: All-Genre Prompt) at the 69th annual Philadelphia Writers Conference (2017). She also won 12th place Lily (no. 48 of Womens names sensual series) by the 2018 Writers Digest Poetry Awards. She is a member of the Greater New York Music Library Association (GNYMLA) and is a member of the New York Poetry Forum Parkside Poets Riverside Poets Brownstone Poets and Nomads Choir. When shes not performing classical choral works with Riverside Choral Society or New Years Eve performances with the New York Festival Singers or writing art song lyrics with her choir buddies or traveling she lives with her husband Rudolf in Manhattan.