A playful debut collection of poetry; O'Brien's shattering sonic sensibility tethers us to the material world via humor and a vibrant commitment to precision.
Colleen O'Brien is the author of the story collection All Roads (TriQuarterly/Northwestern University Press) and the poetry chapbook Spool in the Maze (New Michigan Press), which won the DIAGRAM chapbook contest. Her full-length poetry collection, Reel, will be published by the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Her stories and poems have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Fence, Kenyon Review Online, The Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, West Branch, and other journals, and her story "Charlie" won a Pushcart Prize. She teaches at Lehigh University.
