Nance Van Winckel is the author of seven other books of poetry, most recently Pacific Walkers (U. of Washington Press, 2014) and Book of No Ledge (Pleiades Press Visual Poetry Series, 2016). She's on the faculties of Eastern Washington University's Inland Northwest Center for Writers and Vermont College of Fine Arts' MFA in Writing Program. She is the recipient of two NEA poetry fellowships, the Paterson Fiction Prize, Poetry Society of America's Gordon Barber Poetry Award, and a Christopher Isherwood Fiction Fellowship.