Kim Stafford is a writer and teacher in Oregon, and the founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College. His poetry titles include A Gypsy’s History of the World (Copper Canyon Press, 1976) and Wild Honey, Tough Salt (Red Hen Press, 2019). He has published a biography, Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford (Graywolf Press, 2002); a children’s book, We Got Here Together (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1987); and a book about writing and teaching: The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer’s Craft (University of Georgia Press, 2003). His work has been translated into Japanese, French, and Spanish, and featured on The Writer’s Almanac, and his books have received awards from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers and the Western States Book Awards. Stafford has received two NEA Creative Writing Fellowships in poetry, and has taught writing in Scotland, Italy, Mexico, and Bhutan. He co-founded the annual Fishtrap Writers Gathering in Oregon and teaches regularly at the Hugo House in Seattle. In 2018, he was named Oregon’s Poet Laureate for a two-year term. He teaches and travels to raise the human spirit.