About the Author

Corrinne Clegg Hales was born in Tooele, Utah, and grew up in Salt Lake City.To Make It Rightwon the 2011 Autumn House Poetry Prize selected by Claudia Emerson. Her previous full-length books includeSeparate Escapes(Ashland Poetry Press, winner of the Richard Snyder Prize),Underground(Ahsahta Press), as well as two chapbooks. Awards include two NEA Fellowship Grants and the River Styx International Poetry Prize. She lives in Fresno, California, where she coordinates the MFA Program in Creative Writing at California State University, Fresno.