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Angela Rawlings’s first book, Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists, is a sensual, magic-realist book of poetry that aligns the human sleep cycle with that of butterflies and moths.

Rawlings has spent the last several years working with a multitude of literary organizations, including Mercury Press, the Scream Literary Festival and the Lexiconjury Reading Series, and in 2005 she was host of the television documentary series Heart of a Poet. During all this, she has been developing her own poetry.

When she asks, "Doesn't it just blow your mind when language, something you've intimately known since the age of two, challenges your expectations of how you communicate?" it's clear that A. Rawlings enjoys her work.

The incredibly present and overworked 27-year-old is the co-organizer of the Lexiconjury Reading Series, host for the Bravo! show Heart of a Poet and has just published her first collection of poetry, Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists.