Kendra DeColo is the author of My Dinner with Ron Jeremy (Third Man Books, 2016) and Thieves in the Afterlife (Saturnalia Books, 2014), selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. Her poems and essays appear in Tin House Magazine, Waxwing, Los Angeles Review, VIDA, and elsewhere.  She is co-host of the podcast RE/VERB: A Third Man Books Production and she is the recipient of a 2019 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.