Juliet Patterson is the author of  The Truant Lover (Nightboat Books) and Threnody (forthcoming, Jackleg Press). Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines including 26, American Letters & Commentary, Crazyhorse, Indiana Review, Knockout, New Orleans Review, Pebble Lake Review, Redivider, Swerve, Water~Stone Review, and Verse. Her recent awards are a 2011 Arts & Letters Susan Atefat Prize in Non-Fiction, the 2010 Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Minneapolis-based Institute for Community and Cultural Development.  She edits poetry for Konundrum Engine Literary Review, teaches through Hamline University and Saint Catherine University and also works as a grant writer specializing in renewable energy projects. She lives in Minneapolis near the west bank of the Mississippi and the Great River Road that stretches from Canada to the Gulf.