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Ellery Akers

Ellery Akers’s newest book, A Door into the Wild: Poetry and Art, won the 2024 Blue Light Book Award. Among her previous collections of poetry are Swerve: Environmentalism, Feminism, and Resistance, which was named a “Best Environmentalism Books of All Time” by BookAuthorityPracticing the Truth, which won the Autumn House Poetry Prize, an Independent Publisher Book Award, and the San Francisco Book Festival Poetry Award; and Knocking on the Earth, named a best book of the year by San Jose Mercury News. She is also the author of the children's novel Sarah’s Waterfall, which won a NAPPA Award, a Mom’s Choice (Gold) Award, and a Skipping Stones Award. Among her other honors are the Poetry International Prize, the John Masefield Award, Sierra magazine's Nature Writing Award, and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Ucross Foundation, and Headlands Center for the Arts. Her poetry has been featured on National Public Radio and has appeared in The New York Times MagazineAmerican Poetry ReviewPoetry, and others. Her nature essays have appeared in The SunStory QuarterlyCalifornia Living, and in anthologies including Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and AnimalsShort Takes: Model Essays for Composition; and Stories from Where We Live: The California Coast. An award-winning artist, Akers has exhibited in museums and galleries nationally, including the Anchorage Museum, the San Diego Museum of Art, and the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art. She lives on the Northern California coast and teaches private poetry workshops.
 

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