Iris Jamahl Dunkle

Iris Jamahl Dunkle wrote the first full-length biography on Charmian London, Jack London’s wife, Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer (University of Oklahoma Press). She is also the author of four poetry collections, including West : Fire : Archive, forthcoming from The Center for Literary Publishing in 2021. Her work has been published in Tin House, San Francisco Examiner, Fence, Los Angeles Review of Books, Split Rock Review, Taos Poetry Journal, Pleiades, Calyx, Catamaran, Poet’s Market, Women’s Studies, and Chicago Quarterly Review. Dunkle teaches at Napa Valley College and is the Poetry Director of the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference.