Colleen S. Harris earned her MFA in Writing from Spalding University. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her poetry collections include The Light Becomes Us (Main Street Rag, forthcoming), Babylon Songs (First Bite Press, forthcoming), These Terrible Sacraments (Bellowing Ark, 2010; Doubleback, 2019), The Kentucky Vein (Punkin House, 2011), God in My Throat: The Lilith Poems (Bellowing Ark, 2009), and chapbooks That Reckless Sound and Some Assembly Required (Pork Belly Press, 2014). She also co-edited Women Versed in Myth: Essays on Modern Women Poets (McFarland, 2016) and Women on Poetry: Writing, Revising, Publishing, and Teaching (McFarland, 2012). Harris grew up on Long Island, and as an academic librarian has made her home in places including Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, California, and Texas. In addition to her MFA, she holds a BA in International Relations and Economics from Centre College, an MS in Library & Information Science from the University of Kentucky, a Master of Public Administration from California State University San Bernardino, an MA and PhD in Mythological Studies from the Pacifica Graduate Institute, and an Ed.D. in Learning & Leadership from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.