Poetry Atlanta Presents...

The program will be hosted by Atlanta poet and novelist Collin Kelley, and will feature two professors of English.

Amy Pence is the author of the poetry collections Armor, The Decadent Lovely and the chapbook Skin’s Dark Night. Her poems have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including New American Writing, The Oxford American, The Antioch Review, and Quarterly West.  She is Professor of English at DeVry University, Atlanta, where she teaches writing and poetry.  She now makes her home in the woods near Carrollton, Georgia with her husband and her daughter. 

Jenny Sadre-Orafai is the author of the chapbooks Weed Over Flower, What Her Hair Says About Her, Dressing the Throat Plate and Avoid Disaster. Sadre-Orafai holds an MFA from Georgia State University. She is a founding editor of The Night Outside, a founding editor of Josephine Quarterly, Atlanta Regional Editor for Coldfront Magazine, and Assistant Professor of English at Kennesaw State University.