Ruby Mountain takes readers on a powerful, evocative spiritual and personal journey of the Mojave Desert by longtime poet/resident Ruth Nolan. These poems, written in an exciting mix of high and low poetic forms - from sonnet to ragged free verse - employ the very best of imagery, poetic subtleties, and evoke the inner poetry of the desert's exotic geographies and more recognizable iconic features, and embrace a wide sweep of subjects, including a lover's suicide, environmental protests against large-scale renewable energy project sited on sacred American Indian sites, and a re-telling of one of the Mojave Desert's most famed and enduring romantic tragedies, the story of Willy Boy.

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Ruth Nolan is an author based in California's Mojave and Coachella Deserts. A former seasonal wildland firefighter for the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management throughout the Western U.S., she is now professor of English and Creative Writing at College of the Desert in Palm Springs, CA. Her fiction appears in LA Fiction Anthology: Southland Stories by Southland Writers (Red Hen Press, 2016), and she's most recently published poetry/prose in The James Franco Review; Angels Flight Literary West; Desert Magazine/USA Today; and her short story "Palimpsest" won an honorable mention in Sequestrum Magazine's 2016 Editor's Reprint awards. She's also published work in Rattling Wall; Desert Oracle; Women's Studies Quarterly; New California Writing-Heyday Books; Lumen; Pacific Review; Rhino Baby; Poemeleon and The Desert Sun. She writes feature articles about California desert culture and the environment for KCET/Artbound Los Angeles; Inlandia Literary Journeys; News from Native California and Sierra Club Desert Report. She's the editor of the critically-acclaimed anthology No Place for a Puritan: the Literature of California's Deserts (Heyday Books, 2009, ) now in its second printing. She holds her M.F.A in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts from the University of California, Riverside-Palm Desert Low Residency M.F.A. program, and her M.A. in English from Northern Arizona University. Ruby Mountain is her debut poetry chapbook. She can be reached by email at ruthnolan13@gmail.com.

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