Renee Olander

Renée Ellen Olander is author of American Dangerous, a collection of poems, and poetry chapbooks A Few Spells and Wild Flights.  Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared widely, including in the Split This Rock, Heart Online and The Chronicle of Higher Education Poetry Month blogs, anthologies Feminine Rising: Voices of Power and Invisibility, Forgotten Women, and Verse and Universe: Poems About Science and Mathematics, and journals Free State Review, The Café Review, South Loop Review, Hawai’i Pacific Review Best of the Decade, Rhino, Plainswoman, Dogwood Review, Snake~Nation~Review, 5am, and many others.  Born on Naval Base Corpus Christi, Texas, USA, Olander was raised into the military-industrial complex.  Her award-winning work explores intersections including family and military, love and terror, and our human associations with climate change.  Recipient of the Kate Smith Award from Amelia Magazine, the Benn Award for Creative Writing from Mary Baldwin U., and a Pushcart Prize nomination from Sistersong: Women Across Cultures, among other honors, Olander is a longtime advocate for social and environmental justice.