Dana Curtis

Dana Curtis is a poet based in Denver, Colorado, who serves as editor-in-chief of Elixir Press. Her work has appeared in journals including Ploughshares, Indiana Review, and Colorado Review. Curtis has published four poetry books, three of them with BlazeVOX Books, including Wave Particle Duality (2017) and Directed by Lilly Obscure (2023). Her first book, The Body's Response to Famine, won the Pavement Saw Press Transcontinental Poetry Prize. She has received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the McKnight Foundation.