Killarney Clary has published four books of prose poetry: Who Whispered Near Me; By Common Salt; Potential Stranger; and Shadow of a Cloud but No Cloud; and two chapbooks: By Me, By Any, Can and Can’t Be Done and I’ll Never See Your Version of Blue. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lannan Foundation. Born in Pasadena and having spent most of her life in the Los Angeles area, she now lives near Santa Cruz, California.