Hitchhiking the Highway of Tears

Sheila Nickerson is a poet and author, most recently of Disappearance: A Map: A Meditation on Death and Loss in the High Latitudes and Midnight to the North: The Untold Story of the Inuit Woman Who Saved the Polaris Expedition. A former resident of Alaska, she now lives in Bellingham, WA.

Ansley is a writer and teacher from the Pacific Northwest. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Colorado Boulder and is the author of the chapbook Geography (dancing girl press, 2015). Her work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Colorado Review, swamp pink, Bennington Review, and elsewhere. She currently works as the Director of the Writing Center at The Evergreen StateCollege and teaches poetry and mixed media workshops at local community arts organizations, including Hugo House in Seattle. She lives in Olympia, Washington with her dog.