Colette Inez, of French origins, was Belgian-born and reared in a Catholic Home for Children in Brussels. She was brought to the U.S. as a youngster just before the outbreak of World War II. After graduating from Hunter College in 1961, she taught in public and private schools in New York City, as well as in Poets-in-the-Schools programs. She has since authored ten books of poetry and a memoir, been published in more than seventy anthologies and textbooks, and presented her work in over 150 colleges and universities. A long-time faculty member of Columbia University, she also taught at Cornell, Ohio, Bucknell, the New School and Colgate universities. Inez instructed at leading writer's conferences, written essays, short stories and reviews, judged numerous poetry contests and appeared on public radio and TV. Her papers can now be accessed at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center of Boston University. She resides in Manhattan with husband Saul Stadtmauer, a freelance writer and journalist.

Horseplay (Word Press, 2011), The Secret of M. Dulong (University of Wisconsin Press, 2005), Spinoza Doesn't Come Here Anymore (Melville House Publications, 2004), The Way Home: On the Poetry of Colette Inez (Word Press, 2003), Clemency (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998), For Reasons of Music (Ion Books, 1994), Getting Underway: New & Selected Poetry (Story Line Press, 1993), Family Life (Story Line Press, 1992), The Woman Who Loved Worms (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1991), Eight Minutes from the Sun (Saturday Press, 1990), Alive and Taking Names (Ohio University Press, 1980)

Love Rise Up (Benu Press, 2012), Never Before (Four Way Books, 2007), Poetry Daily Essentials (Sourcebooks, Inc., 2007), The Paradelle (Red Hen Press, 2005), Sustenance & Desire (David R. Godine, 2004), After Confession: Poetry as Autobiography (Graywolf Press, 2001), Poems to Live By in Uncertain Times (Beacon Press, 2001), Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English (Wesleyan University Press, 2000), Verse, Universe (Milkweed Editions, 1999), Fathers (St. Martin's Press, 1997), Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms (Macmillan, 1996), International Anthology of Women Poets (Dial Press, 1994), The Art and Craft of Poetry (Writer's Digest Books, 1994), Tangled Vines (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992), How to Write Poetry (Prentice Hall, 1990)

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