His most recent book is Closer to Nowhere: Lost and Found in the Lower Canyons of the Rio Grande. His poetry books include According to Sand, Arcadia Road, Venison, Odd Botany, and Making a Map of the River. Chapbooks include Meltlines, The Guessing Land, and Off Owl’s Head. His other books include a middle grade novel, True as True Can Be, and two nonfiction books, Watershed Days: Adventures (a Little Thorny & Familiar) in the Home Range and Down by the Eno, Down by the Haw: A Wonder Almanac. His writings appear regularly in journals, and selections are featured in several anthologies. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and Jacob K. Javits, Sustainable Arts, and Henry Hoyns fellowships, and was awarded the George Garrett New Writing Award from The Fellowship of Southern Writers.
Education
- M.F.A., University of Virginia
- B.A., Bowdoin College