This poet's rapt, driven affect and glazed wit heralded a new strategy in the mitigation of female self-hatred in poetry.
Chelsey Minnis was born in Dallas and grew up in Denver. She attended the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the author of Baby, I Don't Care, Poemland, Zirconia, Foxina, and Bad Bad. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.