Connie Wanek

Connie Wanek has lived in New Mexico and Minnesota. For a quarter century she lived in Duluth near Lake Superior, where she worked at the Duluth Public Library and restored old houses. She has two children and two grandchildren. Her most recent boks are Rival Gardens: New and Selected Poems from the University of Nebraska Press, Consider the Lilies: the Mrs. God Poems, and a book of poetry for young readers, Marshmallow Clouds, co-written with Ted Kooser and published by Candlewick Books, which won the CLiPPA Award in the UK.