Lowell Jaeger (Montana Poet Laureate 2017-2019) teaches creative writing at Flathead Valley Community College in Kalispell, Montana. He is author of eight collections of poems, including most recently Earth-blood & Star-shine. As Editor of Many Voices Press, Jaeger compiled New Poets of the American West, an anthology of poets from western states. He has also edited anthologies of Montana poets, Poems Across the Big Sky and Poems Across the Big Sky II.

Recorded at the Country Bookshelf on July 11, 2018.