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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Noethe is the founder and artistic

director of the Missoula Writing

Collaborative, which sends published

writers into classrooms throughout

Western Montana. She was

Montana's Poet Laureate from 2011-

2013 and has published one textbook

and four collections of poetry,

including her latest As Is. Her 5th

grade teacher handed her a script for life by insisting that she make writing her life work.

She writes: “Here at my desk at the foot of Mt. Jumbo I can hear the geese flying

overhead, wings cranking like paddle wheels.”