Life
Collins was an intern, working up to research assistant, and then assistant director, of Public television documentaries, from 1997-2003.
She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop where she was a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow.
In Fall 2005, she read at Reading Between A&B, in New York, and in the Summer of 2006, taught a fiction workshop in Wellington, New Zealand, at Victoria University.
She lives in Denver, where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in poetry.
Her poems have been published in journals and magazines including The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, A Public Space, and Gutcult, where she is an editor.
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