Colette LaBouff

She has taught poetry, literary journalism and literature at UC Irvine, Pitzer College, Loyola Marymount University and elsewhere. The author of Mean (U. of Chicago Press, 2008), a book of prose poems, and “Holdings,” a text-object (Container Press, 2019) as well as essays, she was poetry curator at Zocalo Public Square for many years between 2009-2020. She has a Ph.D. in English and an MFA in Poetry, both from UC Irvine. She currently serves as a member of the Governing Board of Directors of The LGBTQ Center in Las Vegas.