Forrest Gander
The author of numerous books of poetry, including Core Samples from the World, and Science & Steepleflower, novels, and essays, Forrest Gander is Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature at Brown University. A United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow and recipient of the Witter Bynner fellowship from the Library of Congress, he has also won fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim, Whiting, and Howard Foundations.