Ruth Ellen Kocher is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Third Voice, (Tupelo Press, 2017), Ending in Planes (Noemi Press, 2014), Goodbye Lyric: The Gigans and Lovely Gun (Sheep Meadow Press, 2014), and domina Un/blued (Tupelo Press, 2013), winner of the 2014 PEN/Open Book Award. She lives in Erie, CO, and teaches Poetry, Poetics, and Literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She received her BA in English from Penn State.