Celebrations
2024 Celebrations
Jackson Hole Writers celebrates the love of writing with special events that invite participants to work closely with inspiring writers to generate new writing that might surprise, motivate and energize your creative practice.
We see these celebrations as focusing on a core component of the writing process. If our conference emphasizes the skills and steps necessary to pursue publication, and our craft classes and critique groups help writers build skills and find community in the writer’s life, our celebrations focus on the joy and passion we experience as writers when making new work. The writing process can be challenging. Our celebrations honor that it can also be FUN!
Dot for a Walk
Danusha Laméris, a poet and essayist, was raised in Northern California, born to a Dutch father and Barbadian mother. Her first book, The Moons of August (2014), was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Autumn House Press Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Book Award. Some of her work has been published in: The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, Orion, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Prairie Schooner. Her second book, Bonfire Opera, (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pitt Poetry Series), was a finalist for the 2021 Paterson Poetry Award and recipient of the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. She was the 2018-2020 Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, California, and is currently on the faculty of Pacific University’s low residency MFA program. Her third book, Blade by Blade, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press.
