Five for Nothing by Cindy King

Cindy King is the author of a book-length poetry collection, Zoonotic (2022), and two chapbooks, Easy Street (2021) and Lesser Birds of Paradise (2022). Her latest book manuscript, Fever Coat, won the C&R Poetry Book Award and will be published in 2025.

Her poems appear in The Threepenny Review, The Sun, New England Review, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, American Literary Review, Denver Quarterly, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships and scholarships by Tin House, the Sewanee Writers’ Workshop, the Fine Arts Work Center, Colgate University, and other organizations.

Cindy was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up swimming in the shadows of the hyperboloid cooling towers on the shores of Lake Erie. She currently lives in Utah, where she is a professor of creative writing at Utah Tech University and faculty advisor to Route 7 Review and The Southern Quill. She also enjoys serving as an editorial associate at Seneca Review and TriQuarterly. She has recently joined Trio House Press as part of their editorial staff.