Ellery Akers Author

Ellery Akers's newest book,A Door into the Wild: Poetry and Art, won the 2024 Blue Light Book Award. Among her previous collections of poetry are Swerve: Environmentalism, Feminism, and Resistance(2020), which won Book Authority's Award for the Best Environmentalism Books of All Time;Practicing the Truth(2015), which won the Autumn House Poetry Prize, an Independent Publisher Book Award, and the San Francisco Book Festival Poetry Award; andKnocking on the Earth(1989), named a Best Book of the Year by theSan Jose Mercury News. She is also the author of a children's novel,Sarah's Waterfall(2009), which won a NAPPA Award, a Mom's Choice (Gold) Award, and a Skipping Stones Award. Among her other honors are the Poetry International Prize, the John Masefield Award,Sierramagazine's Nature Writing Award, and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Ucross Foundation, and Headlands Center for the Arts. She lives on the Northern California coast and teaches private poetry workshops.