god of salt

Ruth Ellen Kocher is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder and the author of eight books, most recently, godhouse (Omnidawn Press, 2023), Third Voice (Tupelo Press, 2016), Ending in Planes (Noemi Press, 2014), and Goodbye Lyric: The Gigans and Lovely Gun (The Sheep Meadow Press, 2014). She has received fellowships from the NEA, Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Cave Canem Foundation. She is currently at work on a series of nonfiction projects on whiteness, mothering, and spiritual personhood.