George KalamarasGeorge Kalamaras, former Poet Laureate of Indiana (2014-2016), is Professor Emeritus of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne, where he taught for thirty-two years. He is the author of twenty-seven books of poetry-eighteen full-length books and nin chapbooks-as well as a critical study on Western language theory and the Eastern wisdom traditions. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, two Individual Artist Grants from the Indiana Arts Commission, an Indo-U.S. Advanced Research Fellowship (for months of research in India), and-most recently-the 2024 Indiana Book Award for Poetry. He lives with his wife, writer Mary Ann Cain, and their beagle, Blaisie, in Livermore, Colorado, in the mountains northwest of Fort Collins. Read More Read Less