Sharon DoubiagoSharon Doubiago has published more than a dozen books of poetry and prose, beginning with the highly acclaimed epic poem, HARD COUNTRY (West End Press, 1982; 1999). She has won a number of awards including the Oregon Book Award for Poetry for Psyhe Drives The Coast (Empty Bowl Press, 1990) and the Glenna Luschei Distinguished Poet Award for Love on the Streets: Selected and New Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008). Her booklength poem South America Mi Hija (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992)was nominated twice for a National Book Award and she was a finalist in the 2010 Northern California Book Awards in Creative Nonfiction for Volume I of her memoir, MY FATHER'S LOVE: PORTRAIT OF THE POET AS A YOUNG GIRL (Wild Ocean Press, 2009). Her short story collection The Book of Seeing With One's Own Eyes (Graywolf Press, 1988) was included in the Oregon Culture Heritage list: Literary Oregon, 100 Books, 1800-2000. She holds three Pushcart Prizes for poetry and fiction, two Oregon Institute of Literary Art Fellowships and a California Arts Council Award. She has also published over a hundred essays--from the personal and creative, to the scholarly. She is a board member of PEN Oakland. A new collection of poetry, Naked To The Earth, will be published later this year. Read More Read Less