Anne Haven McDonnell lives in in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she teaches as a full professor of creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and MacDowell, she is the author is Breath on a Coal—winner of the Halcyon Poetry Prize, runner-up for the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment book prize, and long-listed for The Laurel Prize—and the chapbook Living with Wolves. Her poetry has been widely published in journals such as Orion Magazine, Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, The Georgia Review, Narrative Magazine, Nimrod,and Terrain.org. Her honors include a Narrative Annual Poetry Contest prize, a Ginkgo Ecopoetry prize, the fifth annual Terrain.org poetry prize, and a special mention for a 2021 Pushcart Prize. She has been a writer-in-residence at the Andrews Forest Writers’ Residency, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and the Wrangell Mountains Center in McCarthy, Alaska. She is currently a poetry editor for the online journal Terrain.org.
