Crystal Curry was born in Greenville, Illinois, in 1974. She is the author of BUT I HAVE REALIZED IT (Switchback Books, 2016), OUR CHROME ARMS OF GYMNASIUM (Slope Editions, 2010), and Logotherapy Pant (Cosa Nostra Editions, 2008). She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she received a Maytag Fellowship, a Teaching-Writing Fellowship and an Alberta Kelly Postgraduate Fellowship. Her poems have appeared widely in journals both off and online, such as Verse, Denver Quarterly, Conduit, Open City, Interim, and Action Yes.