Alicia Hokanson’s first collection of poems, Mapping the Distance, was selected by Carolyn Kizer for the King County Arts Commission publication prize.  Two chapbooks from Brooding Heron Press are Phosphorous, and Insistent in the Skin. Her newest collection, Perishable World, published by Pleasure Boat Studio, was awarded the Eyelands Book Awards grand prize in December 2021. Retired from a long teaching career, she lives in Seattle and on Waldron Island, Washington.

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