Adrian Blevins is the author of the full-length poetry collections Appalachians Run Amok, Live from the Homesick Jamboree, The Brass Girl Brouhaha, and the co-edited Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean: Meditations on the Forbidden from Contemporary Appalachia. She is the recipient of many awards and honors including The Wilder Prize, The Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Rona Jaffe Writer’s Foundation Award, among others. She teaches at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.