David Axelrod is the author of six previous collections of poetry, most recently The Open Hand (University of Washington Press, 2017). An earlier collection, The Cartographer's Melancholy, won the Spokane Prize and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. He is also the author of two collections of essays and is the editor of basalt: a journal of fine and literary arts. Director of the low residency MFA and Wilderness, Ecology, and Community Programs at Eastern Oregon University, he makes his home in Missoula, Montana.
