Close Your Eyes, Look at Me

E. Marie Bertram completed her MFA in poetry, along with a Graduate Certificate in Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was a fellow. The author of eight chapbooks, including The Vanishing of Camille Claudel (Seven Kitchens Press, forthcoming) and Inland Sea, which received the 2009 Robin Becker Chapbook Prize, she is currently a Fellowship Instructor in English at Augustana College. She has lead creative writing workshops for homeless individuals in transition, a prisoner, and students at the elementary, high school, and college level.

Cover art by Kelvin Mason