Bobbie West

Bobbie West grew up on a farm in Illinois. After drifting into various jobs as a waitress, union machinist, teacher, and translator, she discovered poetry. Since then, her writing has appeared in a variety of literary magazines. She's the author of a chapbook, Scattered Damage (Meow Press, 1998), and assistant editor of A Wild Salience: the Writing of Rae Armantrout, forthcoming from Burning Deck Press. Currently, she works at a public library in the San Diego inner city neighborhood where she 

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Image of Bobbie West stood in a field. The grasses are as high as her neck. There is a small, white building in the background.