Allison Cobb is the author of Born2 (Chax Press); Green-Wood (Factory School); Plastic: an autobiography (Essay Press EP series); and After We All Died (Ahsahta Press), which was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. She was born in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where the first atomic bombs were made. She works for the Environmental Defense Fund and lives in Portland, Oregon, where she co-curates The Switch reading, art, and performance series.