ASH BOWEN taught creative writing at a number of universities, including the University of Alabama, Minot State University, and, most recently, Arkansas State University-Queretaro, Mexico. He has been the recipient of a Mona Van Dyun Scholarship from Sewanee Writers' Conference, and his work has appeared in New England Review, Kenyon Review Online, Rust+Moth, Best New Poets, and Best of the Net. His first book of poetry, The Even Years of Marriage, was winner of the Orphic Prize.
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"What is outside the garden of Eden? Genesis tells us it's the sweat of our labor on a hard and hot land full of weeds and thorns. But what if, as Ash Bowen's title wonders, there are Other Edens? This is poetry akin to Johnny Cash and Buddy Moss, Tom Waits and Jason Isbell--ruin songs of the hard-luck and every kind of hurt, the ones whom hope seems to have abandoned--out of which a keen and human voice calls into the dark. It found my heart. It will find yours too."--Philip Metres, judge and author of Fugitive/Refuge