Kate Colby is author of seven books of poetry, including The Arrangements and I Mean, and a new book of critical poem-essays, Dream of the Trenches. She has received awards and fellowships from the Poetry Society of America, Rhode Island State Council for the Arts and Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room, and has poems and essays forthcoming in A Public Space, Chicago Review and La Vague. She grew up in Massachusetts and currently lives in Providence, where she sometimes teaches at Brown and is the book editor at Essay Press.