Crystal Curry was born in Greenville, Illinois, in 1974. She is the author of Logotherapy Pant (Cosa Nostra Editions, 2008) and OUR CHROME ARMS OF GYMNASIUM (Slope Editions, 2010). She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she received a Maytag Fellowship, a Teaching-Writing Fellowship and an Alberta Kelly Postgraduate Fellowship. Her poems have appeared widely in journals both off and online, such as Verse, DENVER QUARTERLY, Conduit, Open City, Interim, and Action, Yes. She lives in Seattle with poet Nico Vassilakis and their two children.