Maureen Owen is the author of ten poetry titles, most recently Erosion’s Pull from Coffee House Press, a finalist for the Colorado Book Award and the Balcones Poetry Prize. Her title American Rush: Selected Poems was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize and her work AE (Amelia Earhart) was a recipient of the prestigious Before Columbus American Book Award. Other books include Imaginary Income, Zombie Notes, a brass choir approaches the burial ground, The No-Travels Journal, and Untapped Maps.  She has work most recently published in YAWP magazine, Columbia Review, Hanging Loose, Poems from the Women’s Movement, The library of America, ed. Honor Moore, and Visiting Wallace, Univ. of Iowa Press (eds. Dennis Barone and James Finnegan). Maureen is a recipient of an NEA Writing Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts grant and most recently a Fund for Poetry grant.  She currently teaches at Naropa University both on campus and in the low-residency MFA Creative Writing Program and is editor-in-chief of Naropa’s on-line zine not enough night.