CB Follett is the winner of the 2001 National Poetry Book Award from Salmon Run Press. She has had poems published in Calyx, Green Fuse, Peregrine, The Cumberland Review, Rain City Review, Ambit, The MacGuffin, Birmingham Poetry Review, Black Bear Review, New Letters Review, Psychological Perspectives, Without Halos, The Iowa Woman, Heaven Bone, Americas Review, and The Taos Review, among others. Her work has appeared in many anthologies and has received honors in competitions, among them the Billee Murray Denny Poetry Award, the New Letters Prize, the Ann Stanford Prize, the Glimmer Train Poetry Contest, and several contests of the Poetry Society of America. Five of her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Hold and Release is Follett's fifth published collection of poetry. She is editor and publisher of Arctos Press and coeditor and publisher of RUNES, A Review of Poetry.

Follett is also an artist, with artwork in many private collections around the world.