Dr. Iris Jamahl Dunkle

• EWP 104C

Iris Jamahl Dunkle is an Emerita Poet Laureate of Sonoma County. She has authored two biographies: Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer (University of Oklahoma Press, 2020) and the USA Today bestseller, Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb (University of California Press, 2024). Her fourth poetry collection, West : Fire : Archive, was recently published by The Center for Literary Publishing. Dunkle writes a weekly blog called Finding Lost Voices, which revives the voices of women who have been forgotten or misremembered, and serves as the Poetry and Translation Director at the Napa Valley Writers' Conference. She’s on the board of the National Book Critics Circle, where she is the VP of Awards. Dunkle received her PhD in American Literature from Case Western Reserve University and her MFA in Poetry from New York University.