Juliet Patterson's first book, The Truant Lover, was selected by Jean Valentine as the 2004 winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize and was a finalist for a 2007 Lambda Literary Award. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous magazines including 26, American Letters & Commentary, Indiana Review, New Orleans Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Pebble Lake Review, Sink Review, Swerve, Water~Stone Review, and Verse. Among her awards are a 2004 SASE/Jerome grant, a 2004 fellowship with the Institute for Community and Cultural Development through Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis, and a 2003 fellowship from the Minnesota State Arts Board. She edits poetry for Konundrum Literary Engine Review and teaches through the College of St. Catherine and Hamline University. An active participant in community-based art projects and service, she has also worked as an educator with the Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, United Cambodian Association of Minnesota, the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. She currently volunteers for the Minnesota Renewable Energy Society and lives in Minneapolis near the west bank of the Mississippi and the Great River Road that stretches from Canada to the Gulf.