Katie Ford is the author of Deposition (2002) and Colosseum (2008), both published by Graywolf Press. Colosseum was named a Best Book of 2008 by Publishers Weekly and a Top Ten Poetry Book of 2008 by The Virginia Quarterly Review. It also won the 2009 Levis Reading Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University. Ford is a recipient of a 2008 Lannan Literary Fellowship. She teaches at Franklin & Marshall College and makes her home in Philadelphia. [bio updated 2011]