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I am so excited about the next QOM. Not only is there an extra week off to get all rested and polish up those poems - but we have one of the finest poets in the country coming over and she's bringing her accordion!

J. Fantôme Wilber is a traveller girl who loves words, wandering ghosts, wondertales, and whiskey. She tells stories because she is stories. She writes poetry and prose about desire and freedom and danger, travel, nights of boozing, her misspent youth, smoky clubs, and other things that make her ghost-heart thump faster. She writes magical realist fiction about things like mysterious deaths, men who get turned into bears, girls who live in lakes, and the circus. When performing, she often accompanies herself on the accordion. She has run away with the circus five times, and other than being a writer she is also a musician, human pincushion, glass-walker, burlesque dancer, and clown; and she has been known to spin punk rock records at various bars throughout the midwest. You can find out more about her by visiting her website: http://sadandbeautifulworld.net/.