"Riveting...This biography sets the record as straight as it can be straightened....Despite her flaws, or perhaps because of them, Charmian is indeed the kind of woman whom one would love to have known."
—Jonah Raskin, Jack London Society
"these poems offer the thrill of a newly discovered vista, while never straying far from our planet’s formidable powers, our brief existence...riveting and crucial as we step cautiously into the new frontier."
—Gillian Conoley
Iris Jamahl Dunkle is an award-winning literary biographer, essayist, and poet. Her academic and creative work challenges the Western myth of progress by examining the devastating impact that agriculture and over-population have had, and continue to have, on the North American West. Taking an ecofeminist bent, her writing also challenges the American West’s male-oriented recorded history by researching the lives of women. She obtained her MFA in poetry from New York University, and her PhD in American Literature from Case Western Reserve University.