Chrissy Kolaya is the author of one novel: Charmed Particles (Dzanc Books) and two books of poems: Other Possible Lives and Any Anxious Body (Broadstone Books). Her short fiction and poems have been included in the anthologies New Sudden Fiction (Norton) and Fiction on a Stick: New Stories by Minnesota Writers (Milkweed Editions) and in a number of literary journals. She has received a Fiction Meets Science fellowship at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Studies, an Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies fellowship, and grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Jerome Foundation, and the University of Minnesota. Kolaya teaches creative writing in the MFA program at the University of Central Florida.