Katie Ford is the author of If You Have to Go (Graywolf Press, 2018); Blood Lyrics (Graywolf Press, 2014); Colosseum (Graywolf, 2008); and Deposition (Graywolf Press, 2002). Ford is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Larry Levis Reading Prize. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside