About

H. G. Dierdorff is a poet from the scablands and pine savannas of eastern Washington, the ancestral, unceded land of the interior Salish people. She is the author of Rain, Wind, Thunder, Fire, Daughter, which was selected for the 2022 Betsy Joiner Flanagan Award in Poetry and was published by the University of Nevada Press in 2024. Her work has been awarded a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship and appeared in journals such as Cut Bank, Arkansas International, and Willow Springs. You can currently find them in Oregon, where they volunteer with Write Around Portland and teach poetry through Literary Arts.

 

  • "We have received so much, and, yes, every moment it is ending. If we are not here fully, what else are we going to do?"

    Poetry Northwest

  • "Where do we go from here? What will the future hold? All Dierdorff gives us, in a suite of erudite, raging, brave poems, is a hint. It will be a howling, a tempest."

    EcoTheo Review