Sharon Doubiago has written two dozen books of poetry and prose, most notably the epic poem Hard Country (West End Press), the booklength poem South America Mi Hija (University of Pittsburgh) which was nominated twice for the National Book Award, and the story collections, El Nino (Lost Roads Press), and The Book of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes (Graywolf Press) which in 2005 was selected to the Oregon Culture Heritage

list, Literary Oregon, 100 Books, 1800-2000.   She

holds three Pushcart Prizes for poetry and fiction and the Oregon Book Award for Poetry for Psyche Drives the

Coast.   In 2008 Love on the Streets, Selected and New

Poems will be published by the University of Pittsburgh as well as Volume One of her memoir, My Father’s Love/Portrait of the Poet as a Girl, by Red Hen Press.  She’s an online mentor in Creative Writing for the University of Minnesota and a board member of PENOakland.  Her new collection of memoir stories, Why She Loved Him, is looking for a press.