A person wearing a blue hat and denim jacket sitting outside. A porch with a railing is in the background, along with people sitting at tables, engaged in conversation or activities. The setting appears relaxed and casual.

Forrest Gander

Forrest Gander, born in the Mojave Desert, lives in California. A translator/writer with degrees in geology and literature, he’s received the Pulitzer Prize, Best Translated Book Award, and fellowships from the Library of Congress, Guggenheim, and US Artists Foundations. A signal voice for environmental poetics, Gander often writes about human and ecological intimacies. His latest books, focused on California, are Mojave Ghost: a Novel Poem and the collaboration Across/Ground: Photographs by Lukas Felzmann.