Ellery Akers

Poet, children’s writer, and naturalist Ellery Akers earned a BA at Harvard University and an MA at San Francisco State University. She is the author of three poetry collections: Swerve: Environmentalism, Feminism, and Resistance (2020); Practicing the Truth (2015), which won the Autumn House Poetry Prize; and Knocking on the Earth (1988), which was chosen for the Wesleyan New Poets series. Her work has been featured in the New York Times Magazine; former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s syndicated newspaper column, “American Life in Poetry”; and in the anthology Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals (1998). She is the author of a children’s novel Sarah’s Waterfall: A Healing Story about Sexual Abuse (2009). Akers lives in Marin County, California. (Source)