Colleen S. Harris

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 2025), 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), and edited So You Want to Be An Academic Library Director (ALA Editions, 2017). After making her home in New York, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and California, she now lives in Texas and works as a university library dean. In her free time, you can find her reading, writing, working on a jigsaw puzzle, or organizing her indie nail lacquer collection.