Karen Leona Anderson is the author of Receipt and a previous collection, Punish honey. She received a PhD from Cornell University with a dissertation on poetry and science. She is an associate professor of English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
Richard Wagamese (1955-2017) was one of Canada’s foremost writers, and one of the leading indigenous writers in North America. He was the author of several acclaimed memoirs and more than a dozen novels, including Indian Horse, Medicine Walk, and Dream Wheels.
Chris Dombrowski is the author of The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water. He is also the author of Body of Water: A Sage, A Seeker, and the World’s Most Elusive Fish, and of three acclaimed collections of poems. Currently the Director of the Creative Writing program at the University of Montana, he lives with his family in Missoula.
We invite you to join us for an inspiring evening celebrating thirty-six years of Milkweed Editions at the Book Lovers Ball! Our featured speaker will be Chris Dombrowski, renowned fly-fishing guide and author of Body of Water: A Sage, A Seeker, and the World’s Most Alluring Fish.
Max Ritvo (1990-2016) wrote Four Reincarnations in New York and Los Angeles over the course of a long battle with cancer. He was also the author of The Final Voicemails, edited and introduced by Louise Glück, and co-authored Letters from Max with Sarah Ruhl; both books were published posthumously. Ritvo’s poetry has appeared in the New Yorker and Poetry, among many other publications.
The 2016 Jackson Hole Writers Conference will be held from June 23 to June 25 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as talks, readings, and manuscript critiques. The faculty includes poets Maria Melendez Kelson, Paisley Rekdal, and Bethany Schultz Hurst; fiction writers Brian Doyle and Lynn Sharon Schwartz; and creative nonfiction writers Gretel Ehrlich and Alison Hawthorne Deming.
Jennifer Willoughby is the recipient of the 2015 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry for her debut collection, Beautiful Zero, selected by Dana Levin. She lives in Minneapolis, MN and works as a freelance advertising copywriter.
