Juliet Patterson’s first book, The Truant Lover, was a 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 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 work was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize and among her awards are a 2010 Minnesota State Arts Board grant in prose, the 2010 Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize, a SASE/Jerome grant, and a fellowship with the Institute for Community and Cultural Development through Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis. She edits poetry for Konundrum Literary Engine Review and teaches through the St. Catherine University 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, Whittier International School, 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.