Ruth Ellen Kocher

Ruth Ellen Kocher’s books include One Girl Babylon (New Issues Press, 2003); When the Moon Knows You’re Wandering (New Issues Press, 2001), which won the Green Rose Prize in Poetry; and Desdemona’s Fire (Lotus Press, 1999), which won the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. Her work has been published in Callaloo , Cimarron Review , Ploughshares , African American Review , The Gettysburg Review , The Missouri Review , Washington Square , Crab Orchard Review , and Ninth Letter , among other literary journals. Her work has been translated into Persian in the Iranian literary magazine She’r . She has been a fellow at the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, the Cave Canem Workshop, and Yaddo. She teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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