Miriam SaganMiriam Sagan is the author of 30 published books, including BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE (Red Mountain Press, 2019), A HUNDRED CUPS OF COFFEE (Tres Chicas Books, 2019), Black Rainbow (Sherman Asher, 2015) Geographic: A Memoir of Time and Space (Casa de Snapdragon), which won the 2016 Arizona/New Mexico Book Award in Poetry, LOVE & DEATH: GREATEST HITS (Tres Chicas Books, 2011), GOSSIP (Tres Chicas Books, 2007), JUST OUTSIDE THE FRAME (Tres Chicas Books, 2005), THE WIDOW'S CAT (Ahsahta Press, 2002) and AEGEAN DOORWAY (Zephyr, 1984). She founded and headed the creative writing program at Santa Fe Community College until her retirement in 2016. Her blog, Miriam's Well, has 1500 daily readers. She has been a writer in residence in four national parks, at Yaddo, MacDowell, Colorado Art Ranch, Andrew's Experimental Forest, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Iceland's Gullkistan Residency for creative people, and another dozen or so remote and unique places. She is recently returned from Kura Studio, Itoshima, Japan, where she was working on text installations as part of the creative team Maternal Mitochndria. Her awards include the Santa Fe Mayor's award for Excellence in the Arts, the Poetry Gratitude Award from New Mexico Literary Arts, and a Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa. Read More Read Less