Katie Ford is the author of Deposition (Graywolf Press, 2002), Colosseum (Graywolf Press, 2008), and Blood Lyrics (Graywolf Press, 2014), which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize. Colosseum was named among the “Best Books of 2008” by Publishers Weekly and the Virginia Quarterly Review and led to a Lannan Literary Fellowship. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Paris Review, and The Norton Introduction to Literature. Her fourth book is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2018. Ford teaches at the University of California, Riverside.