Shawn FawsonShawn Fawson spent her childhood in Italy, Switzerland, and a remote coastal village 200 miles north of Tokyo. She lives with her family and works with people and their end-of-life concerns at a hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her MFA is from the Vrmont College of Fine Arts. She has two chapbooks out--Abandoned Sightings and Historiographies (2008) from New American Press, and Waking One World to Hush Another (2009) from Tiger's Eye Press. A few other honors include the Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award (2005), the Phyllis Smart Young Poetry Prize, an American Academy of Poet's Award, and Notable in Best American Essays 2008. GIVING WAY is her first full-length book. Read More Read Less