Natalie Giarratano‘s first collection of poems, Leaving Clean, won the 2013 Liam Rector First Book Prize in Poetry (Briery Creek Press, 2013). Recent poems appear in Sakura Review, Isthmus Review, Black Tongue Review, Beltway Poetry, Tupelo Quarterly, Tinderbox, and TYPO, among others. She co-edits Pilot Light, an online journal of 21st century poetics and criticism and lives in Northern Colorado.