Forrest Gander, born in the Mojave Desert, lives in California. A translator/writer with degrees in geology and literature, he has received the Pulitzer Prize, Best Translated Book Award, and fellowships from the Library of Congress, Guggenheim and U.S. Artists Foundations. A signal voice for environmental poetics, Gander often writes about human and ecological intimacies. His latest book, focused on the desert, is "Mojave Ghost: A Novel Poem."
Awards: Guggenheim Fellow, Pulitzer Prize, Pushcart Prize, Best Translated Book Award, Whiting Writers Award, Witter Bynner Library of Congress Fellowship, United States Artists Rockefeller Award
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