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Eric Magrane is a poet and geographer. He is the first poet in residence at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and is the founding editor of Spiral Orb, an experiment in permaculture poetics. His research areas include creative geographies, the geographies of art and science and art and environment, science communication, environmental humanities, and narratives of climate change and the Anthropocene. He is coeditor, with Christopher Cokinos, of The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide, illustrated by Paul Mirocha and forthcoming from University of Arizona Press (2016). He holds an MFA in creative writing and is currently a PhD candidate in geography at the University of Arizona, where he also works on art & environment with the Institute of the Environment. See more about his creative work, research, and publications at his website.