Winner of the Dorset Prize for Poetry

About the Author

Twice Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry, and a 5-time Pushcart nominee, Sandra Meek is a native of El Paso, TX. She was raised in Ft Collins, CO, and received her BA and MFA from Colorado State University, and her PhD from the University of Denver. For two years she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Botswana. In 2003, she received the Peace Corps Writers Award in Poetry for her first book Nomadic Foundations. Her second book Burn appeared in 2005. Widely published in literary journals, Sandra Meek is currently a professor at Berry College in Mt. Berry, GA.

Advanced Praise

“Sandra Meek’s poetry is lush yet precise, balancing complex scientific concepts with vivid imagery. Her exploration of the human connection to nature is deeply moving, revealing a fraught yet undeniable bond. This is not pastoral nostalgia but a raw, layered excavation of our place in the world.” —Rachel Abramowitz, Colorado Review

“Meek’s poems are luminous, filled with a quiet intensity. Her language dances between metaphor and reality, capturing both the beauty and brutality of life. Biogeography is a stunning achievement, offering readers a glimpse into the divine substance of existence.” —Phebe Davidson, Asheville Poetry Review

“In Biogeography, Meek challenges her readers to engage deeply with her intricate poetry. Each line carries a weight of meaning that resonates long after the page is turned. Her deft use of metaphor and innovative form highlights the fragility and resilience of life.” —Kelly Cherry, On The Seawall

“Sandra Meek’s collection is a masterful blend of sensual imagery and stark realism. Her poetry inhabits the liminal spaces between joy and grief, presence and absence. Biogeography reminds us of the transience of all things and the profound beauty found in that fleeting nature.” —Afaa Michael Weaver

“Meek’s language feels both immediate and ancient, her poems embodying the tension between human transience and the enduring landscape. Her work resonates on a visceral level, offering a rich tapestry of sensory and emotional experiences.” —Larissa Szporluk

“[S]o often does Meek get it right that her poems are at once lush and precise, expansive enough to incorporate complex scientific concepts and yet specific when they need to be (‘spidering / to hairline fractures frozen across an eggshell’). In fact, it is when she balances metaphor and pure image that the writing is strongest…. This is not a pastoral book; the reader will find no idealized memories or set pieces here. Rather, the poems unearth and expose the primordial link between humans and nature, as well as examine the speaker’s own fraught understanding of her place in the natural world.” —Rachel Abramowitz, Colorado Review

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-932195-70-5