June Sylvester Saraceno

June Sylvester Saraceno is the author of two poetry collections, "Altars of Ordinary Light" and "of Dirt and Tar," as well as a chapbook of prose poems, "Mean Girl Trips." She is English Program Chair and Professor in Humanities at Sierra Nevada College, Tahoe. In addition to teaching courses in Humanities and English, she developed the BA in English and initiated a BFA in creative writing. Partnering with Brian Turner, she also co-created the low residency MFA in creative writing at SNC. In 2008, she initiated the Writers in the Woods literary speaker series. She is the founding editor (1990) of the Sierra Nevada Review, a literary journal.