Douglas Collura lives in Manhattan and is the author of a spoken-word CD, The Dare of the Quick World, and the book, Things I Can Fit My Whole Head Into, which was a finalist for the 2007 Paterson Poetry Prize. He is the 2008 First Prize Winner of the Missouri Review Audio/Video Competition in Poetry and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2016. His work has been published in A Public Space, BLACK&WHITE, Coe Review, The Dos Passos Review, Eclipse, The Evansville Review, Forge, Paterson Literary Review, The Monarch Review, Sanskrit Literary-Arts Magazine, as well as other periodicals and webzines.