The Authors of River River Books
Lauren Camp
Author of An Eye in Each Square (River River Books, June 2023)
Lauren Camp is the Poet Laureate of New Mexico and author of five previous books. Her honors include the Dorset Prize and finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award, Housatonic Book Award, and Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry. She is an emeritus Black Earth Institute fellow and was Astronomer in Residence at Grand Canyon National Park. Her work has been translated into Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish, and Arabic.
Jennifer A Sutherland
Author of Bullet Points (River River Books, June 2023)
Jennifer A Sutherland is an attorney and an educator in Baltimore, MD. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets, the Denver Quarterly, the I-70 Review, Parhelion, the Hollins Critic, and elsewhere. Bullet Points is her first book.
Rachel Edelman
Author of Dear Memphis (River River Books, January 2024)
Rachel Edelman is a Jewish poet raised in Memphis, TN. She has received fellowships and residencies from the University of Washington, the Academy of American Poets, Mineral School, and Crosstown Arts. Her poems have been published in Narrative, Poetry Northwest, Muzzle Magazine, The Threepenny Review, and The Seventh Wave, among many other journals. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the Kenyon Review online and the Ploughshares blog, where she wrote a year-long series on poetry to imagine the Anthropocene. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington and a BA in English and geology from Amherst College. She teaches high school English in Seattle.
Carla Sofia Ferreira
Author of A Geography That Does Not Hurt Us (River River Books, January 2024)
Carla Sofia Ferreira is a poet and teacher from Newark, New Jersey. Author of micro-chapbook Ironbound Fados (Ghost City Press 2019), her poetry and prose have appeared in The Rumpus, Glamour, Washington Square Review, december, EcoTheo, underblong, Okay Donkey, and Cotton Xenomorph, among others. A recipient of fellowships from the Sundress Academy for the Arts and DreamYard Rad(ical) Poetry Consortium, her poetry has received several nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. One of three students selected to write a creative thesis in poetry during her senior year at Harvard College, Ferreira holds graduate degrees in English and education from the University of Cambridge and Stanford University, respectively. The daughter of Portuguese immigrants, her writing explores transit and transience, urban geographies and distance, tenderness and translation. Her work as an English teacher continues to inform and nourish her writing as a practice of community and care.
Joe Wilkins
Author of Pastoral, 1994 (River River Books, January 2025)
Joe Wilkins was born and raised on the Big Dry of eastern Montana and now lives with his family in the foothills of the Coast Range of Oregon. He is the author of a novel, Fall Back Down When I Die. A finalist for the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, Fall Back Down When I Die won the High Plains Book Award. Wilkins is also the author of a memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers, and four previous collections of poetry. His second novel, The Entire Sky, is slated for publication in July 2024 with Little, Brown. Wilkins directs the creative writing program at Linfield University and is a member of the low-residency MFA faculty at Eastern Oregon University.
Corrie Williamson
Author of Your Mother's Bear Gun (River River Books, January 2025)
Corrie Williamson was born and raised on a small farm in southwestern Virginia and now makes her home in Montana. She is the author of two previous poetry collections, The River Where You Forgot My Name, selected for the Crab Orchard Series and a finalist for the 2019 Montana Book Award; and Sweet Husk, winner of the 2014 Perugia Press Prize. Her work has appeared recently in The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Pleiades, Copper Nickel, Cascadia Field Guide, and many other venues. She was the 2020 Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency fellow, spending 7.5 months living off-grid in southwest Oregon’s Rogue River wilderness.