Gene Twaronite

Gene Twaronite's poems, fiction, and essays have been widely published in numerous magazines, anthologies, and journals. He is the author of thirteen books, including six poetry collections and seven works of fiction and nonfiction. His first poetry book, Trash Picker on Mars (Kelsay Books), won the 2017 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for poetry. He is a former Writer-in-Residence for Pima County Public Library. A native New Englander, Gene now lives in Tucson, a desert city where, in the words of Wallace Stevens, he found himself “more truly and more strange.” His relation to the natural world has always been a central part of his writing.. He is a retired Senior Instructional Specialist for the University of Arizona, where he taught how to create safer, fire-resilient landscapes in this warming new world of increasing wildfires. His new collection of ecopoems, "Watch Us Burn: Poems for a Lost Earth" (Kelsay Books).