Eleni Sikelianos has published six collections of poetry including Body Clock (2008), The California Poem (2004), and The Monster Lives of Boys and Girls, winner of the 2002 National Poetry Series, as well as a memoir, The Book of Jon (2004). Her numerous honors and awards include an NEA Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative American Writing. Her work has appeared in Grand Street, Sulfur, Chicago Review, and Fence, and she has collaborated with musicians, visual artists, and filmmakers. Sikelianos received an MFA from Naropa University and lives in Colorado where she is the Director of Creative Writing at the University of Denver.