Singing Under Snow

Anne Haven McDonnell lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she teaches as a full professor of creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and MacDowell, she is the author of Breath on a Coal—winner of the Halcyon Poetry Prize, runner-up for the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment book prize, and long-listed for The Laurel Prize—and the chapbook Living with Wolves. Her poetry has been widely published in journals such as Orion Magazine, Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, The Georgia Review, Narrative Magazine, Nimrod, and Terrain.org. Her honors include a Narrative Annual Poetry Contest prize, a Ginkgo Ecopoetry prize, the fifth annual Terrain.org poetry prize, and a special mention for a 2021 Pushcart Prize. She has been a writer-in-residence at the Andrews Forest Writers’ Residency, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and the Wrangell Mountains Center in McCarthy, Alaska. She is currently a poetry editor for the online journal Terrain.org.

“‘Stick with me,’ invites Anne Haven McDonnell. Those who do will be rewarded with poems that light up a path toward a deep ecology of care that, if one opens as fully as possible to the connections, losses, and generous beauty of the world, can rise from the mycelium we walk. In piñon, along Douglas fir, over lichen, beside elk, always with mushrooms, McDonnell’s poems live and breathe and listen to lovers, fish, mothers, and owls, always with a fluidity of self that allows new connections, new songs.” —Elizabeth Bradfield, author of SOFAR: Poems and Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry