Dana Curtis holds a Ph.D in English from the Univesity of Denver. Her first full-length collection of poetry, The Body's Response to Famine, won the Pavement Saw Press Transcontinental Poetry Prize. She has also published four chapbooks: Incubus/Succubus (West Town Press), Dissolve (Sarasota Poetry Theatre Press), Swinging Enthralled (Talent House Press), and Twilight Dogs (Pudding House Press). Her work has appeared in such publications as Quarterly West, Indiana Review, Colorado Review, and Volt. She recently received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the McKnight Foundation. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Elixir Press.

About Pyromythology:

"Gorgeous poems like lethal garments stitched together with scorching needles and very hot wire."
—Rikki Ducornet

"In Pyromythology incendiary memory moves forward as Vision, as a forecast of fires to come. These are the best poems yet—all edged with the white heat of white space—from an utterly original American poet."
—Donald Revell