Elizabeth J. Colen is most recently the author of WHAT WEAPONRY, a novel in prose poems. Other books include poetry collections Money for Sunsets(Lambda Literary Award finalist in 2011) and Waiting Up for the End of the World: Conspiracies, flash fiction collection Dear Mother Monster, Dear Daughter Mistake, long poem / lyric essay hybrid THE GREEN CONDITION, and fiction collaboration Your Sick. Nonfiction editor at Tupelo Press and freelance editor/manuscript consultant, she teaches at Western Washington University.