Jane Mead is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently World of Made And Unmade (Alice James). She’s the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, and a Lannan Foundation Completion Grant. For many years Poet-in-Residence at Wake Forest University, she now manages her family’s ranch in Northern California and teaches as a visiting writer on occasion, most recently at The University of Iowa Writers Workshop.