Joe Wilkins is the author of a memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers; two full-length collections of poems, Notes from the Journey Westward, winner of the 17th Annual White Pine Press Poetry Prize, and Killing the Murnion Dogs; and a poetry chapbook, Ragged Point Road. His poems, essays, and stories have appeared in the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, Harvard Review, Ecotone, the Sun, Orion, and Slate, among other magazines and literary journals. He lives with his wife, son, and daughter in western Oregon, where he teaches writing at Linfield College.
