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Sheila BlackWHAT YOU MOURNThe year they straightened my legs, Crippled they called us when I was young Sheila Black lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Her recent chapbook How to Become a Maquiladora received honorable mention in the Main Street Rag Chapbook Contest. A larger collection House of Bone will be published in spring 2007. Black was born with x-linked hypophosphotomia (XLH), more commonly known as vitamin D resistant rickets. |