Feral

Janet McAdams grew up in Alabama and attended the University of Alabama, where she was graduated with a B.A. in English and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. Her first book, The Island of Lost Luggage, won the Diane Decorah Award for Poetry from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas and was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2000. Praised by reviewers as “closely crafted” and “achingly beautiful,” the collection received the American Book Award in 2001. She has been a resident artist at the Hambidge Center, the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center, and Ucross. A certified Integral Yoga teacher, she also teaches creative writing and indigenous literature at Kenyon College, where she is the Robert P. Hubbard Professor of Poetry. She is the editor of the Earthworks series of indigenous writing for Salt.

• The CollectorsOffices of PityTwin, DisappearingThe Fish GirlWhat She Will Sing to YouThe Prisoner of Castle PilsachThe Polar JourneysThe Sister of the SwansThe Animal BathsLetter from the CrimeaThe Green Children The Orphan TrainBuffalo in Six DirectionsInterview with the ReaderThe Daughter of No OneDreaming, the Book ofGhazal of BodyOne Day the GirlThe Way the World Comes BackGirl in Phone BoothMothsThe Manson GirlsThe Children of AnimalsWingA Natural History of HandsSanctuary Ghost RanchEarth My Body Is Trying to RememberNotes