Trish Reeves has received numerous awards for her poetry, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Yaddo Fellowship, a Keck Fellowship (Sarah Lawrence College), and a Kansas Arts Commission Fellowship. Her first book, Returning the Question, won the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize. Her poems have been anthologized and published in numerous journals, including Ploughshares, New Letters, Seneca Review, Prairie Schooner, and Leon Literary Review. Her short fiction has been published in First Intensity and New Letters. Reeves leads Changing Lives through Literature for Johnson County Corrections and is a Kansas Humanities Scholar in Literature. She lives in Prairie Village, Kansas, and taught for twenty-one years at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence. She holds a BJ in journalism from the University of Missouri and an MFA from Warren Wilson College.