Derek Sheffield is the author of four books: Not for Luck, winner of the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize and published by Michigan State University Press; Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy, co-edited with Simmons Buntin and Elizabeth Dodd and published by Trinity University Press and Terrain.org; Through the Second Skin, published by Orchises Press; and, with co-editors Elizabeth Bradfield and CMarie Fuhrman, Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, and Poetry (Mountaineers Books, 2023).