Linda DoveLinda Dove retired from fifteen years of college teaching in 2004 to take up ranching in Skull Valley, Arizona. She holds a PhD in Renaissance literature and taught most recently at Prescott College and Yavapai College in Arizona, where she briefly drected the creative writing program. Poems have appeared in Diner, The Antigonish Review, Harpur Palate, and Clackamas Literary Review, and have won several awards, including the 2005 Stephen Dunn Award and the 2001 Alice Longan Award for a collection inspired by the American Southwest. She recently moved with her husband and daughter to Altadena, California. Read More Read Less