Carol Guess is the author of the fiction collection DARLING ENDANGERED (Brooklyn Arts Press); the novels Seeing Dell (Cleis Press) and SWITCH (Calyx Books); a memoir, Gaslight (Odd Girls Press); two poetry collections, FEMME'S DICTIONARY (Calyx Books) and TINDERBOX LAWN (Rose Metal Press); a collection of essays, MY FATHER IN WATER (Shearsman Books); and the forthcoming collections Doll Studies: Forensics and Willful Machine. She teaches Creative Writing and Queer Studies at Western Washington University and lives with her spouse, writer Elizabeth Colen, on the Washington coast.
