Jane Mead was the author of five collections of poetry, most recently World of Made and Unmade (Alice James, 2016) which was long-listed for a National Book Award, as well as a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize and the International Griffin Prize for Poetry. Her poems appeared regularly in journals and anthologies, and she was the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, and a Lannan Foundation Completion Grant, among others. For many years, Mead was the Poet-in-Residence at Wake Forest University, and she managed her family’s ranch in northern California. She taught as a visiting writer at Washington University, Colby College and most recently, The University of Iowa. She passed away in September of 2019.