Ansie Baird holds degrees from Vassar College and SUNY Amherst where she received her MA in English and won first prize in the University's Academy of American Poets contest. She is Poet in Residence and a part-time English teacher at The Buffalo Seminary, a non-sectarian secondary school in Buffalo, where she has taught for the past thirty-one years.

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