Chelsey Minnis grew up in Denver. She attended the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the author of BABY, I DON'T CARE (Wave Books, 2018), POEMLAND (Wave Books, 2009), ZIRCONIA (Fence Books, 2001), Foxina (Seeing Eye Books, 2002) and Bad Bad (Fence Books, 2007). In 2019, Fence published ZIRCONIA......................BAD BAD, a collection of Minnis' first two books. She lives in Boulder, Colorado. She also writes screenplays.