Samuel Green

Samuel Green has lived off the grid for nearly forty years on an island off the Washington coast. With his wife, Sally, he is co-editor of the award-winning Brooding Heron Press. He has been a visiting professor at multiple colleges and universities, and was selected as the first Poet Laureate of Washington State. Other honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, an Artist Trust Fellowship in Literature, & a Washington State Book Award in Poetry. In 2018 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Seattle University. From 1966-1970, he was in the U.S. Coast Guard, with service in Vietnam.