Ruth Ellen Kocher

Ruth Ellen Kocher is the author of six previous books, including domina Un/blued (Tupelo Press, 2013), co-winner of the 2014 PEN Open Book Award. Her poems have appeared in various anthologies and journals and she has been awarded fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation, the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, and Yaddo. She is Associate Chair and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Colorado where she teaches Poetry, Poetics, and Literature, and is a Contributing Editor at Poets & Writers Magazine.