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2008 Poet Laureate for the State of Washington. Poem collections include Vertebrae: Poems 1972-1996 and The Grace of Necessity.
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Award-winning author of A Sudden Country.
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Professor emerita from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Currently teaches in the low-residency Rainier Writing Workshop. Poetry collections include Just Breathe Normally, Blaze, Underground Rivers, and Esperanza's Hair.
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Teaches graduate students in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College. Books include the award-winning California Transit, The Circles I Move In, Very Much Like Desire, and Radiant Hunger.
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Teaches graduate students in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College. Books include The Blue Streak, The Other Woman, and The Shoplifter's Apprentice.
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Author of Jewish Food: The World at Table, and the upcoming The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York. He has taught at Vermont College, Tufts University, and Emerson College.
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Award-winning children's book author and illustrator. Works include Davy's Dream, Frog Girl, The Jupiter Stone, and Storm Boy, which was nominated for the Caldecott and received the 1996 American Book Award.
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