Josie Sigler Sibara is the author of The Galaxie and Other Rides (Livingston Press, 2012), a collection of stories about growing up in post-industrial Detroit, and a book of poems, living must bury (Fence Books, 2010), which won the Motherwell Prize. Josie completed a PEN Northwest Wilderness Residency, during which she lived for six months on a remote homestead above Rogue River in southern Oregon’s Klamath Mountains. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant. The draft of her first novel recently won the James Jones First Novel Fellowship.