Wanek, Connie

Connie Wanek is the author of three books--ON SPEAKING TERMS (Copper Canyon Press, 2010), HARTLEY FIELD (Holy Cow! Press, 2002), and BONFIRE (New Rivers Press, 1997)--and she has been the recipient of several awards, including the Willow Poetry Prize and the Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize. Most recently, she was named a Witter Bynner Fellow of the Library of Congress by United States Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. She lives in the country outside Duluth, Minnesota, but often finds herself in a green tent somewhere in the Boundary Waters wilderness.