About me
Melissa Kwasny is the author of seven books of poetry, including The Cloud Path (Milkweed Editions, 2024), Pictograph, and Where Outside the Body is the Soul Today, as well as a collection of essays Earth Recitals: Essays on Image and Vision. She is also the editor of two anthologies: I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poets in Defense of Global Human Rights and Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800-1950. Her full length nonfiction book, Putting on the Dog: The Animal Origins of What We Wear, explores the cultural, labor, and environmental histories of clothing materials provided by animals. She recently was artist in residence at American Prairie reserve. Melissa was Montana Poet Laureate from 2019-2021, a position she shared with M.L. Smoker.
