Raised in the drained Mississippi floodplain of “swampeast” Missouri. Since the turn of the century, he has lived in the watershed of Cerrito Creek in the northern Bay Area. He teaches poetry and ecopoetry in the English Department at UC Berkeley. His Times Beach (2015) won The Notre Dame Review Book Prize and the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. He has published poems in Kenyon Review, The New Yorker and Poetry Magazine, which also published his essay “Why Ecopoetry?” His recently finished collection of poems will be called “Near-Earth Object.”

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