Denise LowDenise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate 2007-09, is author of over 30 books. Forward Reviews writes of her memoir The Turtle's Beating Heart: One Family's Story of Lenape Survival: An accomplished poet, Low's well-honed prose flows with lyric intensity. Ameican Book Review wrote of her Jackalope, short stories: an engaging and humorous read, one that reveals a great deal about the parallel, contemporary Native America that exists and thrives in ways largely invisible to many other Americans. She teaches for Baker University's School of Professional and Graduate Studies. She founded the Creative Writing program at Haskell Indian Nations University, where she taught 27 years. She was visiting professor at the University of Richmond and the University of Kansas. She has won three Kansas Notable Book Awards and has recognition from Seaton Prizes, Pami Jurassi Bush Award of the Academy of American Poets, Roberts Prize, and the Lichtor Poetry Prize. Low has an MFA (Wichita State U.) and Ph.D. (Kansas U.). The Associated Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), national creative academic programs and independent writers, selected her to serve as board president. She is on their Inclusivity Committee and is a contributing editor to AWP's The Writer's Chronicle. She is an advisory editor for New Letters. Read More Read Less