Natalie Kenvin is the author of Bruise Theory (BOA, 1995). She studied with Donald Hall, W. D. Snodgrass, Lucille Clifton and Charles Simic, and returned to writing in 1988 after a twenty-five-year silence. Many of her poems are set in urban neighborhoods and state hospitals, making Kenvin, like Sylvia Plath, a poet of dark moods and slashing epiphanies. From 1993–1995, Kenvin was co-editor of No Roses Review. Kenvin won an National Endowment for the Arts Award in 1995 and an Illinois Artist in the Schools Award in 1998-2000.