Tess Gallagher received a BA and an MA from the University of Washington in addition to an MFA from the University of Iowa. Her achievements include: her first collection of poetry, Instructions to the Double, won the 1976 Elliston Book Award for “best book of poetry published by a small press,” two National Endowment for the Arts Awards, and the Maxine Cushing Gray Foundation Award. Tess Gallagher has also published her collections: Willingly (1984), Moon Crossing Bridge (1992), At The Owl Woman Saloon (1999), My Black Horse: New and Selected Poems (1995), and Dear Ghosts (2006) as well as various works of fiction and essays.
Her story “Rain Flooding Your Campfire” appeared in Issue 8.2-Summer/Fall 1996. A review of her collection of short stories, At The Owl Woman Saloon, appeared in Issue 9.2-Summer/Fall 1997.
