Lee Ann RoripaughLee Ann Roripaugh is the author of four previous collections of poems, including Dandarians. Her first collection, Beyond Heart Mountain, was selected by Ishmael Reed as a National Poetry Series winner, and her second collection,Year of the Snake, was named winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award, and her third, On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year, was lauded as "masterful" and a "gorgeous canticle." Roripaugh has received an Archibald Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship, the Frederick Manfred Award from the Western Literature Association, the Randall Jarrell International Poetry Prize, and an Academy of American Poets prize. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of South Dakota Review and directs the creative writing program at the University of South Dakota, as well as being the state's Poet Laureate. She resides in Vermillion. Read More Read Less