Ruth Ellen Kocher
Ruth Ellen Kocher is the author of
One Girl Babylon (New Issues Press 2003),
When the Moon Knows You're Wandering (New Issues Press, 2001), winner of the Green Rose Prize in Poetry, and
Desdemona's Fire (Lotus Press, 1999), winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. Her work has appeared in various journals, including
Washington Square Journal,
Ploughshares,
Crab Orchard Review,
Clackamas Literary Review,
The Missouri Review,
African American Review,
The Gettysburg Review, and
Antioch, among others, and has been translated into Persian in the Iranian literary magazine
She'r. She has also worked as a fellow in the Cave Canem Workshop and Retreat. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
Posted on September 25, 2005 6:32 PM
