Ander is a writer, teacher, editor, and publisher.
In 2005, he came to Tucson from Michigan
to join the faculty in the creative writing program
at the U of A. You can read about Ander's migration
from a land of snow to the land of sky islands in his essay,
"An Ode to a Dry River," published
in the beautiful anthology, Groundwater.
Out this last year from the University of Arizona Press.
Through his enviable energy and significant talent,
Ander has had a huge impact on Tucson
and the literary of life of Southern Arizona already.
We are lucky.
He's no stranger to hybrid writing, himself.
Both in his own work and across all the genres
he has published in, and in the work
that he's interested in as a publisher,
producing through his imprint, New Michigan Press.
Please help me welcome Ander Monson.