About

Despy Boutris is a writer. A two-time Pushcart Prize and Best Microfiction nominee and three-time Best of the Net nominee, her work has been published or is forthcoming in Copper Nickel, Colorado Review, American Poetry Review, ​Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, Crazyhorse, The Journal, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. Currently, she teaches at the University of Houston and serves as Poetry Editor for Gulf Coast, Guest Editor for Palette Poetry and Frontier, and Editor-in-Chief of The West Review.