The Eyck-Berringer Endowed Chair in English at The College of Idaho, Diane Raptosh was the 2013 Poet Laureate of Boise and is the current Idaho Writer in Residence. The recipient of three fellowships in literature from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, she teaches literature and creative writing The College of Idaho, where she also directs the Criminal Justice Studies program. Her fourth book of poems, American Amnesiac, was longlisted for the 2013 National Book Award.