Kelli Russell Agodon is the author of Geography, winner of the 2003 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award. She is a recipient of two Artist Trust GAP grants and has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. Some of her poems have appeared in the North American Review, Seattle Review, Calyx, Rattapallax, Parnassus, and on NPR's The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor.

Currently, she serves as Poetry Editor for the online journal Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. Cherry Grove Collections will publish her first full collection of poems entitled Small Knots in 2004.  and Regional Coordinator for United Poets Coalition/Poets for Peace. After 9-11, Kelli coordinated the Poets for Peace: Mission 911 readings for Western Washington, which raised funds for the American Red Cross.

Kelli has been a featured poet on the ABC News website for National Poetry Month and part of the Seattle Poetry Festivals. She is a graduate of the University of Washington. To read more of her work, visit her website at www.agodon.com.

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