Gary V. Anderson

GARY V ANDERSON identifies as a Finnish American poet, though he is also Swede and Norwegian—and has Sámi ancestors. He was raised on forty acres in Deep River, Washington. His dad was a logger and his mother never learned to drive. Gary remembers hearing the last whistle of the last steam train to empty logs in Deep River. He dropped out of college only to be scooped up as fodder for the Vietnam war and was forty before he attained adulthood. His new goal is to become an elder before he becomes an ancestor.