Tabitha Dial is a Colorado native looking for a job in downtown Denver, partly because it is within bicycling distance from home and partly because she won’t have much else to do (and plenty of school loans to pay off) when she completes an MFA from Colorado State University this summer.

In answer to our question of why she writes, Tabitha responded:

“What keeps my writerly sails full is a variety of forces-friends, mentors and the relocations experienced through travel, reading, the arts, film, and video games. I keep my balance by freelancing for the Reporter-Herald in Loveland, Colorado, and with activities such as teaching poetry to fourth graders in Fort Collins, Colorado, as a poet-in-residence with the Teaching Through Literacy program at Colorado State University.”

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