Loretta Collins KlobahLoretta Collins Klobah is the author of two poetry collections, The Twelve Foot Neon Woman (Peepal Tree Press, 2011) which received the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean poetry and was short-listed for the Forward’s Felix Dennis Prize, and most recently,Ricantations. She has received the Pushcart Prize, the Earl Lyons Award from The Academy of American Poets, and the Pam Wallace Award for an Aspiring Woman Writer. Her poems have been widely published in journals and anthologies. She lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she is a professor of Caribbean literature and creative writing at the University of Puerto Rico. Read More Read Less