Photo credit: Ashwini BhatForrest Gander
Forrest Gander, born in the Mojave Desert, lives in California. A translator/writer with degrees in geology and literature, he’s received the Pulitzer Prize, Best Translated Book Award, and fellowships from the Library of Congress, Guggenheim, and US Artists Foundations. His book Twice Alive focuses on human and ecological intimacies. New Directions has just published his long poem on the desert, Mojave Ghost.
10th Anniversary Festival
Speaker - National Book Critics Circle Superstars of Poetry