![]() Miriam SaganBorn: April 27 1954 in Manhattan New York, USA Resides: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA E-mail: msagan1035 (at) aol (dot) com Website: http://miriamswell.wordpress.com/ I founded and run the creative writing program at Santa Fe Community College. Recent writer in residence situations have included Everglades National Park, Petrified Forest National Park, Andrews Experimental Forest, Gullkistan Residency (Iceland), and Center for Land Use Interpretation Wendover Residency. I have published more than twenty books. Current focus is on ecological/site specific poetry and some installation art. I enjoy blogging at Miriam's Well (see above link). Awards and Other Honors: Santa Fe Mayor's award for Excellence in the Arts (2010), Border Regional Library Association Award, Money for Women/Barbara Deming Award, Lannan Foundation Marfa Residency, Best Memoir of the Year (Independent Publishers). Books Published: Recent books include Tanka from the Edge (MET 2009), which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and Map of the Lost (University of New Mexico Press, 2008). I am also the editor of Elizabeth Searle Lamb's collected Across the Windharp (La Alameda, 1999).
Credits: "Sound of the fountain" - Roadrunner Haiku Journal V:2 (2005); "the widow's short skirt" - Haiku Light (September 2001); "early snow" - The Heron's Nest VIII:4 (2006); "dream coffee cake" – Frogpond. |