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Marilyn Krysl is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and has published eight books of poetry, four books of short stories and a collection of essays. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Best American Short Stories 2000 and O. Henry Prize Stories. Her book Warscape With Lovers won the Cleveland State Poetry Prize in 1997, and her collection of short fiction, Dinner with Osama, won the Richard Sullivan Prize and Foreword Magazine’s 2008 Book of the Year Bronze Medal. In 2023 she was presented with the Karen Chamberlain Lifetime Achievement Award for Poetry in Colorado.

Krysl co-founded the University of Colorado Creative Writing Program in 1975, and later served as its Director. She has taught ESL in the People’s Republic of China, served as Artist in Residence at the Center for Human Caring, worked as an unarmed bodyguard for Peace Brigade International in Sri Lanka, and volunteered at the Kalighat Home for the Destitute and Dying administered by Mother Teresa’s Sisters of Charity in Calcutta.