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Renny Golden, an activist, poet, and academic, currently lives in Albuquerque, NM, where she teaches at the University of New Mexico. She is Professor Emerita at Northeastern Illinois University, where she received the Faculty Excellence Award four times and the Womens Studies Social Justice Award in 2005, which has been named the Renny Golden Award. She was a finalist for the C. Wright Award for her book War on Families: Imprisoned Mothers and the Families They Leave Behind. Her poetry collection Hour of the Furnaces was nominated for the National Book Award in 2000, and her most recent book of poetry, Blood Desert: Witnesses, 1820-1880, was published in 2010.