Brandi Homan holds a PhD in English, Creative Writing (Fiction), from the University of Denver and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago. She is the author of two books of poetry, Hard Reds (2008) and Bobcat Country (2010), from Shearsman Books. Burn Fortune is the winner of the Colorado Book Award. With her husband and daughter, she lives in the suburbs of Denver, where she thinks about the Midwest and misses drinking Yellow no. 5.

“A scorching anthem of what it means to be a young girl in a small town—the dreams that save us and the realities that pull us under. Alive with longing and the desire to break free." —Mona Awad, Author of Bunny (Viking) and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl (Penguin) "I’m in awe of how Brandi Homan’s Burn Fortune embodies the Midwest’s unfurled earth and stretched skies. There’s a recurring image of detasseling corn, which is what the book does: everything connected by silky strands unraveling until we get to the core, a new image of grit and possibility. And Homan gracefully gives us the space to participate in the making of that new image. Thank you for the grit, the hope." —Steven Dunn, Author of Potted Meat and Water & Power (Tarpaulin Sky)