Rain, Wind, Thunder, Fire, Daughter: A Poetry Reading

H.G. Dierdorff, Shann Ray, & Maya Jewell Zeller

Three award-winning poets convene to celebrate H.G. Dierdorff's debut poetry collection, 'Rain, Wind, Thunder, Fire, Daughter,' newly published by the University of Nevada Press.

A poetry reading and signing for H.G. Dierdorff's newly published poetry collection, Rain, Wind, Thunder, Fire, Daughter. Dierdorff will be joined by celebrated local poets Shann Ray and Maya Jewell Zeller. 

About the presenters:

H. G. Dierdorff is a poet from the scablands and pine savannas of eastern Washington, the ancestral, unceded land of the interior Salish people. She is the author of Rain, Wind, Thunder, Fire, Daughter, which was selected for the 2022 Betsy Joiner Flanagan Award in Poetry and is forthcoming from the University of Nevada Press in 2024. You can find them in Portland, Oregon, where they live with their occasionally feral black cat and pretend to work on crafts.

Shann Ray’s deeply engaging work examines humanity’s relationship with violence, love, and forgiveness. Born and raised in Montana, Ray is the winner of an American Book Award, among numerous other accolades, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, and the author of a libretto and 15 books, including Atomic Theory 7, American Masculine, and The Souls of Others. His esteemed work has been widely featured in respected periodicals and publications worldwide.

Maya Jewell Zeller is the award-winning author of the poetry collections out takes/glove box (New American, 2023), Alchemy for Cells & Other Beasts (a collaboration with visual artist Carrie DeBacker; October 2017, Entre Rios Books), Rust Fish (April 2011, Lost Horse Press) and Yesterday, the Bees (October 2015, Floating Bridge Press). Zeller is Affiliate Faculty in Poetry and Nature Writing for Western Colorado University and Associate Professor of English in the Professional and Creative Writing Program (BA and MA) for Central Washington University.

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