Jessica Goodfellow was a writer-inresidence at Denali National Park and Preserve where she researched this project based on the tragic 1967 Wilcox Expedition to Denali. of which her uncle was a member. Her earlier books are Mendeleev's Mandala and The Insomniac's Weather Report. Goodfellow's poetry has been featured by Motionpoems. Best New Poets. and The Writer's Almanac. She works at a university in Japan. and imagery from that culture can be found in her writing.

Other poems by Jessica Goodfellow in Verse Daily:
November 25, 2015:   "On Hearing of Your Hearing Loss" "You heard the last trapdoor close..."
June 3, 2015:   "Regretfully Yours" "Who knows a burden better than a willow?..."
July 8, 2011:   "Navigating by the Light of a Minor Planet" "The trouble with belief in endlessness is..."
December 8, 2008:   ": Shadow : Dwelling : " "Dwelling in a foreign land. Time is the only familiar..."
January 25, 2007:   "Road Trip" " Because the horizon is not a number line..."
March 30, 2006:   "What You See If You Use Water as a Mirror" " In Shinto, the eight elements..."

Books by Jessica Goodfellow:

Other poems on the web by Jessica Goodfellow:
"Perpetuation of the Species" https://www.theawl.com/2017/10/a-poem-by-jessica-goodfellow/
"Unholy Triptych"
Two poems
"Nocturne without Counterexample"
"Darwin's Conjecture"
Two poems
"Wakening"
"Search Party, Called Off"
"Fare"
Three poems
"Not Seeing"
"Crows, Reckoning"
": glass : trap :"
Four poems
"How to Find a Missing Father in a Town that Isn?t There"
": rules : wind :"
"November Nocturne"
"The Beach at Big Salt"
": Map : Glass : "
": Form : Shadow :"
"Poem for My Friends"
"In Praise of Imperfect Love"
"Advanced Alchemy"

Jessica Goodfellow's Web site.

Jessica Goodfellow on Twitter.