Corrinne Hales was born in Tooele, Utah and grew up in Salt Lake City. She received her BA and MA in English from University of Utah and a Ph.D. in American Literature and Creative Writing from State University of New York, Binghamton.. She has published two books of poetry, Underground (Ahsahta Press), and January Fire (Devil’s Millhopper Press), as well as many individual poems in anthologies and journals, most recently The North American Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, River Styx, and Hudson Review. Awards for her poetry include two NEA Creative writing Fellowship Grants, the 1996 Prairie Schooner Readers’ Choice Award for Poetry, and the River Styx Poetry Award for 2000. She has twice served as Poet in Residence at University of Oregon’s M.F.A. program, and also as acting director for that program. Currently she teaches in the M.F.A. program at California State University, Fresno.