Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, Kelli Allen's debut book includes the short story "Orphaned Near the Cave" and the poem "The Twelfth Swan," among other works that according to Glenn Irwin, Assistant Director, University of Missouri in St. Louis MFA, "embody the kind of magic which good poetry has always striven towards and is full of the dark and wonderful complexities of life." Gary Geddes, poet and editor of 20th-Century Poetry & Poetics said "Kelli Allen's work...illustrates all three stages in the making of an artist."BOOK TRAILER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awqlfuzZO-8