About the Author

Julie Carr's first book, Mead: An Epithalamion, won the University of Georgia Press's contemporary poetry prize for 2004. Her other books are EQUIVOCAL (Alice James Books, 2007); 100 NOTES ON VIOLENCE (Ahsahta Press, 2010), winner of the 2009 Sawtooth Poetry Prize selected by Rae Armantrout; and SARAH--OF FRAGMENTS AND LINES (Coffee House Press, 2010), a National Poetry Series winner chosen by Eileen Myles. Carr's poems have appeared in such journals as VOLT, American Letters & Commentary, Pool, Verse, The Iowa Review, Boston Review, and TriQuarterly. She lives in Denver and teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder.