"[I’ve decided I’m done]" by Jory Mickelson

Apr 4, 2025
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Updated: Apr 7, 2025

Jory Mickelson is the author of three books of poetry Picturing (2025), All This Divide, and Wilderness//Kingdom, winner of the High Plains Book Award in Poetry. They have received awards and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the Lambda Literary Foundation, Dear Butte, Desert Rat Writers Residency, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, and Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. They live and write amid the moss and mud of the Pacific Northwest.

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