Sandra McPherson

Sandra McPherson has twenty collections published, including five with Ecco, three with Wesleyan, two with Illinois, and two with Ostrakon. Her new collection, Quicksilver, Cougars, and Quartz, is scheduled for 2019 from Salmon Poetry Press (Ireland). Newer work appears or is forthcoming in Field, Poetry, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, Yale Review, Agni, Ploughshares, Kenyon ReviewEcotone, Cimarron, Crazyhorse, Basalt, Cirque, Palette Poetry, Plume, Red Wheelbarrow, Epoch, JuxtaProse, Lucidity, Vox Populi, and Antioch Review. She taught for 23 years at University of California at Davis and four years at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her collection of 67 African-American improvisational quilts is housed at University of California at Davis Design Department. She founded Swan Scythe Press. She is the great-grand-niece of Abby Morton Diaz, Plymouth feminist author and abolitionist.