Wendell HawkenWendell Hawken lives on a grass farm in the northern Shenandoah Valley in the company of two dogs and one cat. After retiring from office work, Hawken earned her MFA in Poetry from the Warren Wilson College Program for Writers where she studied with etty Adcock and Ellen Bryant Voigt among others. She has two full collections, The Luck of Being (The Backwaters Press, 2008), and White Bird: A Sequence, (FutureCycle Press, 2017), which was honored by the Library of Virginia with a 2018 Literary Award. A chapbook, The Spinal Sequence, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2013. Read More Read Less