Kaia sand
Portland, Oregon, USA
Kaia Sand's book, Remember to Wave, was just released by Tinfish Press, and she is also the author of a poetry collection, interval (Edge Books 2004), awarded Small Press Traffic Book of the Year in 2004, and co-author with Jules Boykoff of Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and Public Space (Palm Press 2008). Sand has created several chapbooks through the Dusie Kollektiv, which also published her wee book, lotto. Her poems comprise the text of two books in Jim Dine's Hot Dreams series (Steidl Editions 2008). She is currently working on The Happy Valley Project, multi-media collaborations investigating housing foreclosures and finance, as well as a lyric collage of the NAFTA, which she began as a commissioned project for the Kootenay School of Writing Positions Colloquium in Vancouver, BC. Born in Fairbanks, Alaska, and raised in Salem, Oregon, Kaia Sand earned her MFA in poetry at George Mason University in Virginia, and during this time, she also worked as Carolyn Forche's assistant. From 2001-2004, she taught at St. Mary's College of Maryland, and co-curated the In Your Ear Poetry series in Washington DC. She has more recently taught at Willamette University and in the Portland State University Studies Program, and currently teaches at Pacific University and co-curates the Tangent Reading Series in Portland. She has read her work widely around the United States, as well as in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland. She lives in Portland with her husband, Jules Boykoff, and their daughter, Jessi.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Remember to Wave (Tinfish Press 2010);
Landscapes of Dissent, co-authored with Jules Boykoff (Palm Press 2008);
interval (Edge Books 2004)
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