Lee Ann Roripaugh
Lee Ann Roripaugh is the author of four previous collections of poems, including Dandarians. Her first collection, Beyond Heart Mountain, was selected by Ishmael Reed as a National Poetry Series winner, and her second collection, Year of the Snake, was named winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award, and her third, On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year, was lauded as “masterful” and a “gorgeous canticle.” Roripaugh has received an Archibald Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship,...