Ruth-Ellen Kocher
University of Colorado- Boulder Professor and Divisional Dean for Arts and Humanities
Boulder, Colorado
Ruth Ellen Kocher is the author of seven books, most recently Third Voice (Tupelo Press, 2016), nominated for the 2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards, Ending in Planes (Noemi Press, 2014), Goodbye Lyric: The Gigans and Lovely Gun (Sheep Meadow Press, 2014), domina Un/blued (Tupelo Press, 2013), winner of the Dorset Prize and the 2014 PEN/Open Book Award. She spent a summer 2017 MacDowell fellowship working on the essay collection, Notes on Whiteness.