Katie Ford is the author of the poetry collections Deposition; Colosseum; Blood Lyrics, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Rilke Prize; and If You Have to Go, all from Graywolf Press. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, the American Poetry Review, and the Norton Introduction to Literature. She has taught poetry and creative writing for over 20 years and, since 2014, has taught at the University of California, Riverside, where she is professor of creative writing.