Nancy Kenney Connolly lives in Austin, Texas and has published poems in The Comstock Review, Wellspring, Pembroke Magazine, Roanoke Review, Main Street Rag and The Crucible, among others. Her first collection, The Color of Dust, was a runner-up for the 1999 Oscar Arnold Young Prize. Her latest book, Thirty-Three Shades of Green, collaboration with the artist, Jeannine Sharkey, was published in 2001.