Colleen Nehmer is the author of The Alchemy of Planes: Amelia Earhart’s Life in Verse. Her poetry has been published in Southern Poetry Review, Bacopa Literary Review, Pedestal Magazine, Southword, Stoneboat, Sunlight Press, An Ariel Anthology 2018, and other journals. Colleen won the 2019 Kay Saunders Memorial Emerging Poet Award and was a 2019 Best of the Net nominee.

She writes everything from fairy tales to creative nonfiction to poems about body love and world history.