Jacqueline Kolosov is a professor of English at Texas Tech University, with degrees in English from the University of Chicago (BA, MA), and New York University (PhD). She has three poetry collections under her belt, including Memory of Blue (Salmon, 2014), and five YA books, including A Sweet Disorder (Hyperion, 2009) and Paris, Modigliani & Me (Luminis Books, 2015). Her essays, stories, poems, and hybrid works have appeared in magazines such as The Sewanee Review, Poetry, and Prairie Schooner, and she has received a Literary Fellowship in Prose from the National Endowment for the Arts. She was born in Chicago and now lives in West Texas with her poet husband, William Wenthe, and their daughter, as well as three intrepid dogs, a fascinating cat, and a Spanish mare who keeps her completely present.