Sophie was a brilliant child by anyone's definition: 4-H champion, accomplished athlete, recognized artist, and Western and English horsewoman. By the age of 16 she added one more achievement to her resume: drug addict.

First full poetry collection by Ellen Waterston includes a number of selections from I AM MADAGASCAR, winner of the 2005 Willa Award from Women Writing the West. First edition trade paper. The music of Ellen Waterston's language in BETWEEN DESERT SEASONS is touching and vibrant, fiery raw and refined, reined in and set free. -- Pattiann Rogers, author of WAYFARE The poems in this collection search for a way beyond loneliness of self first by naming that loneliness and then by threading connections to the multi-layered world beyond the self... -- Wendy Mnookin, author of THE MOON MAKES ITS OWN...

There is an otherness to the high desert, something momentous and sacred in the purity of the silence. In this compelling collection of personal essays, award-winning poet and author Ellen Waterston illuminates the people, places, and landscape of Central Oregon's vast high desert. In "Where the Crooked River Rises, " Waterston reveals the blessings and challenges of decades spent as a rancher and town resident in a place that "has been, and remains," her touchstone and crucible. The high desert is Waterston's teacher, and she describes its lessons with grace and care, inviting readers to...