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Artist: Kristy Odelius
Kristy Odelius is the author of Bee Spit (Dancing Girl Press) and Strange Trades (Shearsman Books), and the co-author of Kiss the Stranger (with Timothy Yu, Corollary Press).*
Her poems have appeared in Chicago Review, Notre Dame Review, GutCult, ACM, Smartish Pace, Sunfish, Fifth Wednesday, Diagram, La Petite Zine, Versal and others. Her poem “Ineffable Green Thing, Loved By All” was nominated for an Illinois Arts Council Award.
She has read her work at St, Mark’s on the Bowery, Woman Made Gallery, The Book Cellar, Myopic Books, The Harold Washington Library, Lake Forest College and others.
Odelius is Professor of English at North Park University in Chicago, IL., where she teaches poetry, creative practice, and 19th century British literature.
*The work of Chicago artist Kelly VanderBrug appears in the cover art for Bee Spit, Strange Trades and Kiss the Stranger.