Chelsey Minnis was born in Dallas, Texas, and grew up in Denver, Colorado. She attended the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Iowa Writer's workshop. She is the author of Zirconia (Fence, 2001), Foxina (Seeing Eye Books, 2002) and Bad Bad (Fence, 2007). She lives in Boulder, Colorado.

"The formal invention and wild personae of Chelsey Minnis' Zirconia represent a progressive yet individualized position in the galaxy of truly contemporary poetry. Zirconia is accessible, confrontational, hilarious, occasionally shocking, never dull, and often extremely moving." -Alberta duPont Bonsal Foundation

Chelsey Minnis was born in Dallas, Texas, and grew up in Denver, Colorado. She attended the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Iowa Writer's workshop. She is the author of Zirconia (Fence, 2001), Foxina (Seeing Eye Books, 2002) and Bad Bad (Fence, 2007). She lives in Boulder, Colorado.

"The formal invention and wild personae of Chelsey Minnis' Zirconia represent a progressive yet individualized position in the galaxy of truly contemporary poetry. Zirconia is accessible, confrontational, hilarious, occasionally shocking, never dull, and often extremely moving." -Alberta duPont Bonsal Foundation

Chelsey Minnis was born in Dallas, Texas, and grew up in Denver, Colorado. She attended the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Iowa Writer's workshop. She is the author of Zirconia (Fence, 2001), Foxina (Seeing Eye Books, 2002) and Bad Bad (Fence, 2007). She lives in Boulder, Colorado.

"The formal invention and wild personae of Chelsey Minnis' Zirconia represent a progressive yet individualized position in the galaxy of truly contemporary poetry. Zirconia is accessible, confrontational, hilarious, occasionally shocking, never dull, and often extremely moving." -Alberta duPont Bonsal Foundation