Singer Come From Afar

About Kim Stafford

Kim Stafford is a writer and teacher in Oregon and the founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College. His poetry titles include A Gypsys History of the World (Copper Canyon Press 1976) and Wild Honey Tough Salt (Red Hen Press 2019). He has published a biography Early Morning: Remembering My Father William Stafford (Graywolf Press 2002); a childrens book We Got Here Together (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1987); and a book about writing and teaching: The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writers Craft (University of Georgia Press 2003). His work has been translated into Japanese French and Spanish and featured on The Writers Almanac and his books have received awards from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers and the Western States Book Awards. Stafford has received two NEA Creative Writing Fellowships in poetry and has taught writing in Scotland Italy Mexico and Bhutan. He co-founded the annual Fishtrap Writers Gathering in Oregon and teaches regularly at the Hugo House in Seattle. In 2018 he was named Oregons Poet Laureate for a two-year term. He teaches and travels to raise the human spirit.