Derek Sheffield
Derek Sheffield’s collection Not for Luck, which will be published by Michigan State University Press in 2021, was selected by Mark Doty for the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize. He is also the author of Through the Second Skin, runner-up for the Emily Dickinson First Book Award and finalist for the Washington State Book Award. With Simmons Buntin and Elizabeth Dodd, he coedited Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy (Trinity University Press, 2020). He lives with his family on the eastern slopes of the Cascades in Washington and is the poetry editor of Terrain.org.
Reading List
Monsters
It waited for the happy ending to end, for the kiss and light touch, waited for the door to click, her breathing even, and then, before the stuck- open, night-lit eyes of her stuffed animals, and despite her pink blanket in her arms, it took her. We’d made a show of checking the closet and […]