Derek Sheffield

Derek Sheffield's collection, Not for Luck, was selected by Mark Doty for the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize. He is also the author of Through the Second Skin (Orchises, 2013), runner-up for the Emily Dickinson First Book Award and finalist for the Washington State Book Award, A Revised Account of the West (Flyway/Iowa State University, 2008), winner of the Hazel Lipa Environmental Chapbook Award, and A Mouthpiece of Thumbs (Blue Begonia, 2000). He is a co-editor of Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry (Mountaineers, 2023) and Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy (Trinity University, 2020). His awards include a special mention in the 2016 Pushcart Anthology and the James Hearst Poetry Prize judged by Li-Young Lee. He teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Western Colorado University and at Wenatchee Valley College. Poetry editor of Terrain.org, he lives with his family on the eastern slopes of the Cascades near Leavenworth, Washington. Catch up with him here: www.dereksheffield.com