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Poet TWYLA HANSEN was raised in northeast Nebraska on land her grandparents farmed
in the late 1800s as immigrants from Denmark. Her latest book, Prairie Suite:
A Celebration (Spring Creek Prairie Audubon
Center, 2006) is a poem-drawing collaboration with ornithologist Paul Johnsgard. Her
book Potato Soup (Backwaters
Press, 2003), won the 2004 Nebraska Book Awards competition for poetry. Her writing
has appeared in a wide variety of publications, including Prairie Schooner, Crab
Orchard Review, Ascent, Organization & Environment, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains
(University of Nebraska Press, 2004), Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American
West (Houghton Mifflin, 2004), Poets Against the War (Nation Books, 2003),
and A Contemporary Reader for Creative Writing (Harcourt Brace, 1994). Her poems
were nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2001 and 2003. Her previous poetry books are
Sanctuary Near Salt Creek (Lone Willow Press, 2001), In Our Very Bones
(A Slow Tempo Press, 1997), and How to Live in the Heartland (Flatwater Editions,
1992). Twyla earned her BS and MA from the University of Nebraska — Lincoln. She
is a creative writing presenter through the
Nebraska Humanities Council speakers bureau,
and lives in Lincoln, where her wooded acre is maintained as an urban wildlife habitat
and in 1994 was recognized by the Mayor’s Landscape Conservation Award.
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