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Ander is a writer, teacher,
editor, and publisher.

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In 2005, he came to
Tucson from Michigan

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to join the faculty in the
creative writing program

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at the U of A. You can read
about Ander's migration

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from a land of snow to the land
of sky islands in his essay,

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"An Ode to a Dry
River," published

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in the beautiful
anthology, Groundwater.

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Out this last year from the
University of Arizona Press.

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Through his enviable energy
and significant talent,

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Ander has had a huge
impact on Tucson

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and the literary of life of
Southern Arizona already.

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We are lucky.

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He's no stranger to
hybrid writing, himself.

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Both in his own work and
across all the genres

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he has published
in, and in the work

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that he's interested
in as a publisher,

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producing through his
imprint, New Michigan Press.

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Please help me
welcome Ander Monson.

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