Mimi Zollars was raised on both coasts of the United States and currently lives on a small island off the Texas coast with her three children. Raised in the Catholic Church and the ballet, her ruthlessly romantic view of the world is not uninformed. Zollars attended the University of Washington, where she studied creative writing and dance.

In Benediction for a Black Swan, Mimi Zollars explores the topics of childhood, children, marriage and divorce, alcoholism, and the sensual world in a series of edgy, seductive, irreverent, and ethereal poems. Incorporating elements of magical realism, Zollars’ sexy, darkly beautiful works embrace the miraculous as ordinary—and turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.