Jeanne EmmonsJeanne Emmons was born in Louisiana and raised in Texas, where she received her PhD in English from the University of Texas. After moving to Iowa with her husband, she taught English and Creative Writing at Briar Cliff University and raised two childen. Her move to South Dakota to live on McCook Lake and her experiences paddling her canoe formed the inspiration for these poems. In addition to The Red Canoe, Jeanne Emmons has published three full-length collections: The Glove of the World (2006), winner of the Backwaters Press Reader's Choice Award; Baseball Nights and DDT ( (Pecan Grove Press, 2005), and Rootbound (1998), winner of the New Rivers Press Minnesota Voices Competition. She has won the Comstock poetry prize, the James Hearst Poetry Award, and the Sow's Ear poetry award, among others. Her work has appeared in The Alaska Quarterly Review, The American Scholar, The Carolina Quarterly, Louisiana Literature, The North American Review, The South Carolina Review, Prairie Schooner, The River Styx, The South Dakota Review, and many other journals. She is poetry editor of the Briar Cliff Review. Read More Read Less