Ruth Ellen Kocher
- Distinguished Professor
Ruth Ellen Kocher is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently, Archon / After (Omnidawn Publishing, 2024) godhouse (Omnidawn Press, 2023), Third Voice (Tupelo Press, 2016), Ending in Planes (Noemi Press, 2014), Goodbye Lyric: The Gigans and Lovely Gun (Sheep Meadow Press, 2014), domina Un/blued (Tupelo Press, 2013), Dorset Prize winner and the 2014 PEN/Open Book Award. Her poems and essays have been widely anthologized collections such as Letters to the Future: Black WOMEN/ Radical Writing, Renga for Obama, Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poets, I Experimental Poetry, and Black Nature. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Cave Canem Foundation, MacDowell, and Yaddo. She is a Contributing Editor at Poets & Writers Magazine and currently a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Colorado.
Areas of Specialty
- American Literature
- Creative Writing
- Ethnic American Literature, Literature of the Americas, Post Colonial Literature
- Modern and Contemporary Literature
- Poetics Aesthetics