Jan Seale, the 2012 Texas Poet Laureate, has authored thirty books, including poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and children’s books. Her writing has also been published in such venues as Texas Monthly, Writer’s Digest, Newsday, and The Yale Review. She has held a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and has been a Humanities Scholar for Humanities Texas. Her latest books are "Elder Skelter" and "Border Biome."