Alyse Knorr

Alyse Knorr is the author of Mega-City Redux, which was selected by Olena Kalytiak Davis to win the Green Mountains Review Poetry Prize in 2016. Her other collections include Copper Mother (Switchback Books, 2016) and Annotated Glass (Furniture Press Books, 2013), as well as the poetry chapbooks Epithalamia (Horse Less Press, 2015) and Alternates (dancing girl press, 2014). She is also the author of Super Mario Bros. 3 (Boss Fight Books, 2016), a work of non-fiction. Her poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review, the Greensboro Review, the Cincinnati Review, and many other journals and anthologies.

Knorr earned an MFA from George Mason University, where she cofounded Gazing Grain Press. She is an assistant professor of English at Regis University. Since 2017, she has served as co-editor of Switchback Books.