Chelsey Minnis (she/her) lives in Boulder, Colorado and has an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her books of poetry include “Baby, I Don’t Care” (Wave Press), “Poemland” (Wave Press), “Bad Bad (FENCE) and “Zirconia” (FENCE). She also writes screenplays (dark comedy, light horror, opera biopic) under the name “Merrit Schmidt” and was recently the Grand Prize Winner of the 2023 Hollywood Table Read My Screenplay Competition for her dark comedy screenplay “Suicide at Noon”.