Poet Susan Tichy (MA, Univ. of Colorado, 1979) is the author of four volumes of poetry, A Smell of Burning Starts the Day (Wesleyan), The Hands in Exile (Random House) which was selected for the National Poetry Series, Bone Pagoda (Ahsahta), and Gallowglass (also Ahsahta) which received a bronze in Foreward Review's Book of the Year Awards, placing it as one of the top six small-press poetry books of 2010.  Her poems, collaborations, and mixed-genre works have appeared in 42opus, Agni, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cerise Press, Chapman, Colorado Review, CutBank, Denver Quarterly, Fascicle, Feminist Studies, Five Fingers Review, Green Mountains Review, Hotel Amerika, Indiana Review, The Literary Review, and other journals.  She has received numerous awards, including a fellowship from the NEA, the Chad Walsh Poetry Prize, the Indiana Review Poetry Prize, the Runes Poetry Prize, A Pushcart, and an innovative prose award from Quarter After Eight.