Eleanor Swanson is a widely published poet and fiction writer who holds a PhD from the University of Denver. Her poems have been featured twice in The Missouri Review. Her work has appeared in the Southern Review, Black Warrior Review, the Denver Quarterly, the Bloomsbury Review, the American Poetry Journal, and in many other notable publications. Awards include an NEA Fellowship. She has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize. Her first poetry collection, A Thousand Bonds: Marie Curie and the Discovery of Radium, won the Ruth Stevens Award (NFSP Press) and was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award, and her second collection of poetry, Trembling in the Bones-about the Colorado Coal strike of 1913 and the 1914 Ludlow Massacre-was reissued in 2013 (3: A Taos Press). Her third poetry collection is Memory's Rooms (Conundrum Press). She is also a fiction writer who has published a novel and two collections of short stories. Her second collection, Exiles and Expatriates, won the 2014 Press Americana Prize. She mentors incarcerated men at the Sterling, Colorado, Correctional Facility, and she regularly reads from her work in the Denver metro area.