Publisher Cancels Award-Winning Poet’s First Book Because It Turns Out She Plagiarized A Lot Of It

“[Ailey] O’Toole’s bizarrely brazen act of plagiarism — stealing lines, phrases, and structural elements from the work of at least three other writers — was uncovered last Friday, unraveling her career at the speed of Twitter, the medium by which her fledgling reputation lived and died.” — Vulture