Ruth Ellen Kocher is the author of ENDING IN PLANES (Noemi Press, 2014), Goodbye Lyric: The Gigans and Lovely Gun (The Sheep Meadow Press, 2014), DOMINA UN/BLUED (Tupelo Press, 2013), nominated for the PEN/American Open Book Award 2014, ONE GIRL BABYLON (New Issues Press, 2003), WHEN THE MOON KNOWS YOU'RE WANDERING (New Issues Press, 2002), and Desdemona's Fire (Lotus Press 1999). Her poems have been anthologized most recently in Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poets and Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. She has been awarded f...