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 published by the University of Nevada Press in 2024 and is a finalist for the 2026 Oregon Book Award. Their 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 Portland, where they teach writing at Clackamas Community College and 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