Pulitzer Prize-winning writer/translator Forrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert, and has degrees in geology and literature. A signal voice for environmental poetics, his work often focuses on human and ecological intimacies. He is the author of Twice Alive, and Be With, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, as well as the collaboration, Knot, with photographer Jack Shear. His latest books are Mojave Ghost: a Novel-Poem and Across/Ground: Photographs by Lukas Felzmann.