Forrest 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.