Devreaux Baker
Devreaux Baker is the first poet laureate of Mendocino County, California, and a recipient of the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Poetry Award for her book Red Willow People. Her poetry collections include Hungry Ghosts, Red Willow People, Out of the Bones of Earth, Beyond the Circumstance of Sight, and Light at the Edge. She has facilitated workshops and taught poetry and creative writing in many venues, including public K–12 schools, and has directed national and international poetry workshops. She was a poetry editor of the first Anthology of Mendocino Women Poets, Wood, Water, Air, and Fire, and was producer of the Voyagers radio program of original student writing for KZYX Public Radio. Her awards and honors include the Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Prize from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, the International Fischer Prize for Poetry, the Hawaii Council for Humanities International Poetry Prize, a US Poets in Mexico Award, the Steve Kowit Poetry Award, and the Women’s Global Leadership Poetry Prize. She is a MacDowell Fellow, a Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Fellow, and a Hawthornden Castle Fellow. She currently directs the Mendocino Poets Reading Series and Open Mic at the Mendocino Art Center. Her poem “Blue Requiem” won this year’s Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing in the poetry category.
Devreaux Baker is the first poet laureate of Mendocino County, California, and a recipient of the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Poetry Award for her book Red Willow People. Her poetry collections include Hungry Ghosts, Red Willow People, Out of the Bones of Earth, Beyond the Circumstance of Sight, and Light at the Edge. She has facilitated workshops and taught poetry and creative writing in many venues, including public K–12 schools, and has directed national and international poetry workshops. She was a poetry editor of the first Anthology of Mendocino Women Poets, Wood, Water, Air, and Fire, and was producer of the Voyagers radio program of original student writing for KZYX Public Radio. Her awards and honors include the Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Prize from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, the International Fischer Prize for Poetry, the Hawaii Council for Humanities International Poetry Prize, a US Poets in Mexico Award, the Steve Kowit Poetry Award, and the Women’s Global Leadership Poetry Prize. She is a MacDowell Fellow, a Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Fellow, and a Hawthornden Castle Fellow. She currently directs the Mendocino Poets Reading Series and Open Mic at the Mendocino Art Center. Her poem “Blue Requiem” won this year’s Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing in the poetry category.
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