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Cynthia Miller Coffel

Cynthia Miller Coffel is the author of Thinking Themselves Free: Research on the Literacy of Teen Mothers (Peter Lang, 2011). A literary essay, “Letters to David,” won the Missouri Review Editors’ Prize in 2007; other works have been listed among the notable essays of the year in Best American Essays 2005 and 2008. Her PhD is in literacy education.