Ruth Ellen Kocher is the author of seven books of poetry, including  Third Voice (Tupleo Press,
2016),  Ending in Planes (2014), winner of the Noemi Poetry Prize,  Goodbye Lyric: The Gigans
and Lovely Gun (The Sheep Meadow Press, 2014) and  domina Un/blued (Tupelo Press, 2013).
Her poems have been translated into Persian in the Iranian literary magazine,  She’r, and have
appeared in various anthologies including:  Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary
African American Poets, Black Nature, From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme,
Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and  Just Plain Sound Great, An Anthology for Creative Writers: The
Garden of ForkingPath. She has earned an MFA and PhD from Arizona State University, and
grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo, and Cave Canem.
She is a Professor of English and the Associate Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences at the
University of Colorado at Boulder where she teachings Poetry, Poetics, and Literature in the
undergraduate and MFA writing programs.