Ruth Ellen Kocher

Ruth Ellen Kocher

Ruth Ellen Kocher is an American Poet whose work has appeared in many magazines, journals, literature anthologies, and published collections.

Life and Work

Ruth Ellen Kocher is the author of "One Girl Babylon [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HST/is_2_6/ai_113936970] " (New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2003) [http://www.wmich.edu/newissue/] "When the Moon Knows You're Wandering" (New Issues Press, 2001), winner of the Green Rose Prize in Poetry, and "Desdemona's Fire" (Lotus Press, 1999), winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. Her work has appeared in various journals, including Washington Square Journal, Ploughshares, Crab Orchard Review, Clackamas Literary Review, The Missouri Review, Ninth Letter, African American Review, The Gettysburg Review, and Antioch, among others, and has been translated into Persian in the Iranian literary magazine She'r. She has also worked as a fellow in the Cave Canem Workshop and Retreat. She teaches in the MFA program at University of Colorado at Boulder.

Audio Links

* [http://www.fishousepoems.org/archives/ruth_ellen_kocher/ From the Fishouse]