Selected by Mark Doty for the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize.
“These illuminating pages are a gift in reciprocity for the gifts of the land.”
– Robin Wall Kimmerer
When Derek Sheffield isn’t writing, teaching, or editing, he can often be found in the mountains of North Central Washington. He has published four collections of poetry, including Not for Luck and Through the Second Skin, and co-edited the anthologies, Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy and Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry. He is the poetry editor of Terrain.org.
Header photo, Night Falls, by Marc Dilley.