Anne Haven McDonnell lives in Santa Fe, NM where the high desert meets the southern-most Rocky Mountains, the Sangre de Cristo range. She teaches as associate professor in English and Creative Writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her poetry has been published in Orion Magazine, The Georgia Review, Narrative Magazine, Nimrod Journal, Terrain.org, and elsewhere. Her poems have garnered awards from the Gingko Ecopoetry prize, the Narrative Poetry Prize, Terrain’s poetry prize, and received special mention for a 2021 Pushcart Prize. Her chapbook Living with Wolves was published with Split Rock Press in fall 2020, and her full-length collection Breath on a Coal won the Halycon Poetry Prize and was published in September 2022 with Middle Creek Publishing. Anne Haven holds an MFA from the University of Alaska, Anchorage and has been a writer-in-residence at the Andrews Forest Writers’ Residency, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and the Wrangell Mountain Center in McCarthy, Alaska.