Debra Kang Dean is the author of two books and two chapbooks of poetry. She has also published essays, most recently in the expanded edition of The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World and Until Everything Is Continuous Again: American Poets on the Recent Work of W.S. Merwin. She teaches in the brief-residency MFA in Writing Program at Spalding University and currently lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

Other poems by Debra Kang Dean in Verse Daily:
January 12, 2011:   "Song" "Goldfinches—they were..."
January 25, 2006:   "Single-Lens Reflex" " These twitches, the mind's reflex..."
January 30, 2004:  "Taproot" "Stooping to pull up a weed..."

Books by Debra Kang Dean:

Other poems on the web by Debra Kang Dean:
Two poems
"Back to Back"
"Hermit Crab"

Debra Kang Dean's Website.

About Fugitive Blues:

"In Fugitive Blues, Debra Kang Dean’s poems are at once small and large, honoring the ordinary even as they consider the ontological. This is a poet who understands there is an ‘unkillable law: Some thing must die/that others might live,’ and yet celebrates life with odes to beer and the brown-headed cowbird. Exquisitely imaged and skillfully crafted, these are poems a reader can move into and inhabit for a long while."
—Sarah Freligh