The Center for Literary Publishing is pleased to announce Eric Baus as the winner of the 2011 Colorado Prize for Poetry for his collection Scared Text. Final judge Cole Swensen selected his manuscript from nearly six hundred entries. The book will be available in November 2011.

Eric Baus was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1975. His books include Tuned Droves (Octopus Books), The To Sound (Verse Press/Wave Books, Winner of the 2002 Verse Prize, selected by Forrest Gander), and several chapbooks. He currently lives in Denver.