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Sandra Alcosser
Thursday, May 24, 7:30 p.m.
The Valley Library Rotunda
Co-sponsored by the Spring Creek Project

Sandra Alcosser has published seven books of poetry, including A Fish To Feed All Hunger and Except By Nature, which have been selected for the National Poetry Series, the Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award, the Larry Levis Award, the Associated Writing Programs Award in Poetry, and the William Stafford Award from Pacific Northwest Booksellers. She is the National Endowment for the Arts’ first Conservation Poet for the Wildlife Conservation Society and Poets House, New York, as well as Montana’s first poet laureate and recipient of the Meriam Award for Distinguished Contribution to Montana Literature. She founded and directs the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at San Diego State University each fall, and is, or has been, a member of the faculty at University of Michigan, University of Montana, and Pacific University and a writer-in-residence in Glacier National Park and Central Park, New York.  She received two individual artist fellowships from NEA, and her poems have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. Sandra Alcosser's reading is the concluding event of her writer-in-residency for the Long-Term Ecological Reflections program at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest.