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183 AbouttheAuthor Janet McAdams is the author of two collections of poetry, Feral (Salt, 2007) and The Island of Lost Luggage (University of Arizona Press, 2000), which won the Diane Decorah First Book Award from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas and an American Book Award. With Geary Hobson and Kathryn Walkiewicz, she is coeditor of the anthology The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing after Removal (University of Oklahoma Press, 2010). She is the founding editor of the Earthworks book series from Salt Publishing, which focuses on Indigenous poetry. Of mixed Scottish, Irish, and Creek ancestry, McAdams grew up in Alabama, taught high school in Central America, and presently lives in Ohio with a troubled border collie named Durga. She teaches at Kenyon College, where she is the Robert P. Hubbard Professor of Poetry. In addition to teaching creative writing, environmental literature, and indigenous literature, she is a practitioner and teacher of Integral Yoga. ...